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Lutyens, n.|ˈlʌtʃənz|
[The name of Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944), English architect.]
Used attrib. to denote (features of) buildings designed by Lutyens, or those in a similar neoclassical style.
1921L. Weaver (title) Lutyens houses and gardens. 1944Connoisseur CXIII. 60/1 He..built an entirely new wing in brick with transomed windows, panelled interior and a very promising classic corridor, in fact the Lutyens detail fully developed. 1945Jrnl. R. Inst. Brit. Architects LII. 127/1 Living in a Lutyens house may have its disadvantages, the offices are sometimes queer, you can't always see out of the windows, and there is an awful lot to dust and keep clean. 1974Times 20 May 14/5 The 1930s red brick Lutyens building on Massachusetts Avenue. 1975P. Somerville-Large Couch of Earth iii. 43 The embassy buildings, part functional modern, part Simla official, part Lutyens domestic. 1988M. Stewart-Wilson Queen Mary's Dolls' House i. 16/2 The house has not been lent out to a public exhibition since 1925, but remains where it was designed to stand, the only completely untouched Lutyens house in existence. 1992Accountancy Nov. 37/2 The clubhouse, built in the Lutyens style, includes two bars, a restaurant, and a club room with snooker table.
So Lutyensˈesque a.
1961B. W. Aldiss Primal Urge in Brian Aldiss Omnibus (1969) ii. 33 He could recall the look of the house now; it crouched between two Lutyensesque chimneys. 1982Financial Times 22 June 15/7 Now the British Pavillon is the most delightful of them all, a Lutyensesque treat commanding the highest point and principal vista of the gardens. 1994Independent on Sunday (Sunday Rev. Suppl.) 49/1 The house was built in 1598, with creeper-covered stone walls, a broad Lutyens-esque tiled porch over the door into the garden [etc.]. |