charette

See also: Charette

English

Borrowed from French charrette (literally “small cart”). In the modern sense popularized by the US design supply chain Charrette (1969–2009).

charette (plural charettes)

A small two-wheeled cart; (historical) a chariot.
- 1872, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], A Dog of Flanders‎^[1]:
  He was in fierce wrath, because Patrasche had been a strong and much-enduring animal, and because he himself had now the hard task of pushing his charette all the way to Louvain.
- 1904 May, Winston Churchill, The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book II (Flotsam and Jetsam), page 335:
  A shaggy Indian pony came ambling around the corner between the long shafts of a charette.
(US) A period of intense work, especially group work undertaken to meet a deadline.
- 1977, John W. Warden, Citizen Participation. What Others Say…What Others Do…, Charlottesville, Virgina: Mid-Atlantic Center for Community Education, page 6:
  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.