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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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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 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

Birnbaum’s group has instead proposed the footprint of the pergola, a feature in the landscape in Olmsted and Vaux’s time.

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

“Propaganda works when it coincides with your existing assumptions,” said Pierre Vaux, a senior investigator at the Center for Information Resilience.

From Seattle Times