Pei

¹

[pey]

noun

1. I(eoh) M(ing) 1917–2019, U.S. architect, born in China.

P.E.I.

²

abbreviation

1. Prince Edward Island.

Pei

¹

/ peɪ /

noun

1. I ( eoh ) M ( ing ). born 1917, US architect, born in China. His buildings include the E wing of the National Museum of Art, Washington DC (1978), a glass and steel pyramid at the Louvre, Paris (1989), and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, USA (1995)

PEI

²

abbreviation

1. Prince Edward Island

Example Sentences

Pei Chung, 35, has been arrested and banned from restaurants at least seven times since late October, according to police records.

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Rui Pei is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab.

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While Mr. Adjaye quotes freely from the work of Pei and Kahn, one has the unhappy sense that something essential is missing.

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The temperature problem is most starkly felt in the pyramid of architect Ieoh Ming Pei, which was designed to cope with four million annual visitors but today faces more than double that.

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Pei’s East Wing, whose atrium alone is likely to boost a visitor’s daily step count.

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