charrette

[ shuh-ret ]

/ ʃəˈrɛt /

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noun

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

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Origin of charrette

1965–70; <French: cart, Old French, equivalent to char chariot, wagon (see car¹) + -ette-ette, from the idea of speed of wheels

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 Coues
I 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 Edwards
Jean 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 Carryl
Better that than take your seat along with us to-morrow in the Charrette Rouge.'
Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune|Charles James Lever

I 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