charette

plural charettes · alternative charrette · alternative charret · alternative charet

1. A small two-wheeled cart; (historical) a chariot.

   A shaggy Indian pony came ambling around the corner between the long shafts of a charette.

   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

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   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.

   1872, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], A Dog of Flanders

2. USA period of intense work, especially group work undertaken to meet a deadline.

   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.

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

plural Charettes

1. countableuncountableA municipality in the region of Mauricie, Quebec, Canada.
2. countableuncountableA commune in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
3. countableuncountableA surname from French.