Vaux

American  

[vawks] / vɔks /

noun

1. Calvert, 1824–95, U.S. landscape architect, born in England: collaborator with Frederick Law Olmsted.

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Example Sentences

Downtown's Pershing Square supports mourning doves, Vaux's swifts, gopher snakes and exotic streaktails, a type of fly that feeds on aphids.

From Science Daily

The ruined village of Vaux changed hands thirteen times in March, but for the moment, Fort Vaux itself remained in French hands.

From Literature

The sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller had moved to Paris at the turn of the century, but after her Hayden was one of the first African American artists to travel to Europe to study.

From Washington Post

In the 1960s, when a road was cut through the northern edge of the park, an observatory designed by Calvert Vaux’s son Downing — named for his father’s role model — was demolished.

From New York Times

As a native New Yorker, I have long cherished Central Park, which Olmsted shaped with his partner Calvert Vaux after winning a design competition in 1857.

From New York Times