charrette

English

Noun

charrette (plural charrettes)

1. Alternative form of charette.
   • 1895, Henry Van Dyke, “Au Large”, in Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness‎^[1]:

     The canoes and luggage were loaded on a couple of charrettes, or two-wheeled carts.

   • 1977, John W. Warden, Citizen Participation. What Others Say…What Others Do…, Charlottesville, Virgina: Mid-Atlantic Center for Community Education, page 6:

     Charrette??? If you've never heard of one you needn't feel alone. At various times the charrette has been described as “process of community planning,” “a vehicle for citizens’ participation” and a “technique for studying and resolving educational facility problems.”’ It is in essence a community planning workshop generally designed around the construction of public facilities. […] Today's charrette is basically a community planning process designed to arrive at implementable plans and solutions to community concerns in a very short time period.

Anagrams

• chatterer, retraceth

French

French students pulling a charrette (1965)

Etymology

From Middle French charrete, from Old French charrete; from char + -ete (diminutive). Sense “period of intense work” probably from architecture students loading their work into a cart (pulled by the youngest member) on the day of an exposition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ʁɛt/

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Noun

charrette f (plural charrettes)

1. charette (small two-wheeled cart)
2. (figurative) period of intense work (to meet a deadline)

   être charrette ― to drown in work

   • 2016, Gabriel Dumoulin, Six mois d'abonnement, Atrabile, →ISBN:

     J'étais très charrette ces derniers temps. Beaucoup de travail…des gros dossiers pff…et…

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Derived terms

• charrette à bras
• charrette anglaise
• charrette des condamnés

Descendants

• → Asturian: xarré
• → English: charette
• → Portuguese: charrete
• → Romanian: șaretă

Further reading

• “charrette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle French

Etymology

Old French charrete.

Noun

charrette f (plural charrettes)

1. cart (wheeled unpowered vehicle)

Descendants

• French: charrette

References

• charrette on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)