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To his successors he bequeathed his new goddess, a large, placid pseudo-Roman lady, the work of his good friend Sculptor Pierre Poisson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jay Sarno, 47, who two years ago opened the garish, pseudo-Roman Caesar's Palace, is trying a new approach.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Machiavelli has a personal, Italian side, which is mocking and incisive—and this is all that is worth while in him—and he has a pretentious pseudo-Roman side, which is unspeakably tiresome.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

Nature had gifted Bramante with calm judgment and refined taste; his sense of the right limitations of the pseudo-Roman style was exquisite, and his feeling for structural symmetry was just.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Apart from the chroniclers of individual exploits, such as López de Ayala, Brantôme, and the others, they are wholly colourless, and either pseudo-Roman or pseudo-Greek.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)