a. [attrib. use of the surname Tudor (in Welsh Tewdwr): see below.]
1. Belonging to the line of English sovereigns (from Henry VII. to Elizabeth) descended from Owen Tudor, who married Catherine, the widowed queen of Henry V.
1779. Mirror, No. 18, ¶ 9. In England,… the high prerogative exerted by the Princes of the Tudor race.
1906. Q. Rev., July, 56. A Tudor dynasty held the throne.
2. Applied to the style of architecture (the latest form of Perpendicular) that prevailed in England during the reigns of the Tudors; belonging to or characteristic of this.
Tudor arch, the flattened form of arch characteristic of the Tudor style. Tudor flower, an upright stalked trefoil ornament used in long rows on cornices, etc., in Tudor architecture. Tudor rose, a conventional figure of a rose adopted as a badge by Henry VII., occurring in architectural and other decoration in the Tudor period; in Her. figured as a combination of a red and a white rose (either a smaller rose set upon a larger, or a single rose with the two tinctures divided quarterly).
1815. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, I. 131. [An arch] of four centres, commonly called the Tudor arch.
1842. Tennyson, Edwin Morris, 11. A Tudor-chimnied bulk Of mellow brickwork.
1848. Rickman, Archit., 212. What has been called the Tudor flower, an ornament used instead of battlement, as an upper finish.
1860. Weale, Dict. Terms, s.v. Tudor Badges, [Henry VII.] assumed the Tudor rose, or the red rose charged with the white, as emblematical of his united claims to the throne.
1880. Miss Braddon, Just as I am, ii. It was a Tudor house.
So Tudoresque a., characteristic of the Tudors or the Tudor period; in or resembling the Tudor style, in architecture or art.
1847. Helps, Friends in C., I. v. 81. Those Protestant proceedings, which we may rather hope were Tudoresque than Protestant.
1891. Oakey, Build. Home, 101. An old sixteenth-century Tudoresque house.
1893. Athenæum, 20 May, 635/1. We have the Tudoresque, the Caroline, the Restoration, and other styles [of book-plates].
