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Maillart

American  
[ma-yar] / maˈyar /

noun

  1. Robert 1872–1940, Swiss engineer.


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Then a heatwave in late August and early September scorched some of the remaining grapes, Maillart said.

From Reuters • Sep. 22, 2016

And so it was only natural that she should attend a reception given by Manhattan Society Portraitist Jean Denis Maillart and chat with the guest of honor Nicole Alphand, 37, wife of the French ambassador.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peter Fleming made the trip with a Swiss girl, a professional traveler and author of adventure books named Ella Maillart, called Kini.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fascinated as a boy with the way Spanish masons formed domes of hollow bricks, Candela went on to study the reinforced-concrete forms developed by Spain's Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland's Robert Maillart.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men of note, who were lately Marcel's comrades, were now pronouncing against him; and John Maillart, one of the four chosen captains of the municipal forces, was the most vigilant.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert