charrette
or cha·rette
a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
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How to use charrette in a sentence
La charrette is the last settlement we saw on the Missouri, although there is one above, at a saline on the west side.
The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume II (of 3) | Elliott CouesI suggested that they must have gone on in the omnibus or taken a charrette, and so have passed us unperceived.
In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford EdwardsJean was now wrapped heart and soul in the competition for the Prix de Rome, and, as he said himself, en charrette eternally.
Zut and Other Parisians | Guy Wetmore CarrylBetter that than take your seat along with us to-morrow in the charrette Rouge.'
Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune | Charles James LeverI cannot accept the suggestion of a biographical Lancelot from which both the Lanzelet and the charrette were drawn.
The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac | Jessie L. Weston
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