Prairie School

noun

1. a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.

Example Sentences

On the Tuesday we went out to a prairie school where they were having holidays.

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On one occasion such a storm burst upon a prairie school, smashing in the windows.

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I liked John when he taught the little prairie school and praised me to my wondering relatives.

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They now have a splendid church near the West Prairie school house.

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