charrette

or cha·rette

[ shuh-ret ]

noun

1. a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.

Word History and Origins

Origin of charrette¹

1965–70; < French: cart, Old French, equivalent to char chariot, wagon ( car ¹ ) + -ette -ette, from the idea of speed of wheels

Example Sentences

La Charrette is the last settlement we saw on the Missouri, although there is one above, at a saline on the west side.

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I suggested that they must have gone on in the omnibus or taken a charrette, and so have passed us unperceived.

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Jean was now wrapped heart and soul in the competition for the Prix de Rome, and, as he said himself, en charrette eternally.

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Better that than take your seat along with us to-morrow in the Charrette Rouge.'

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I cannot accept the suggestion of a biographical Lancelot from which both the Lanzelet and the Charrette were drawn.

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