pseudogothic

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ Gothic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pseudogothic (comparative more pseudogothic, superlative most pseudogothic)

1. (literature, architecture) sham-Gothic
   • 1980, Marek Rostworowski, The National Museum in Cracow, the Czartoryski Collection:

     Obviously, the style of romantic pseudogothic architecture was not invented by Isabel - the building at Puławy was preceded by several similar creations abroad and in Poland.

   • 1997, Jan Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, page 97:

     Even a regular reader of the most dreadful pseudogothic periodicals must have felt a frisson of horror.

   • 2004, Harold Bloom, English Romantic Poetry, page 295:

     The pseudogothic trappings that disfigure the first two cantos of Childe Harold are absent in Childe Harold III and IV, which we may discuss here as a unit even though the last canto was completed two years later in Italy.