Alvar
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Alvar
From Tamil āl̤vār, derivative of ār̤- “sink, be absorbed (as in contemplation)”
Example Sentences
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“A normal or above-normal ‘wettish’ year is not enough,” said Alvar Escriva-Bou, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
“Aalto” The Orange County Museum of Art and the Newport Beach Film Festival’s “Cinema Orange” series continues with this documentary of married Finnish design mavens Alvar and Aino Aalto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2021
They held the Finnish architects Alvar Aalto and Eero Saarinen in high esteem.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2020
The influence of these principles on architectural modernism crystallized in Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, built in 1933.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2020
"Don Alvar de Mendoce, for example," muttered Alphonse, between his teeth.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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