charrette

or cha·rette

[ shuh-ret ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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

1965–70; < French: cart, Old French, equivalent to char chariot, wagon ( car ¹ ) + -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.

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

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

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

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

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