charrette
noun
a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
charette
-
a variation of
charrette.
Example Sentences
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People bombarded me with ideas, like they’d been invited to a redesign charette.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
So we did a design charette approach, during which we took a team down to Baltimore, where WellDoc is located, and set up shop in their kitchen.
From Forbes ● Apr. 30, 2013
To his friends and associates, Architect Eero Saarinen was known as "a man who is always en charette."
From Time Magazine Archive
The charette, or cart in common use, was the only exception on the favourable side.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Lt-Col. Pinkney
I asked as the charette passed by them.
From My Home in the Field of Honor by Frances Wilson Huard
