Charette
charrette.
a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
n.
also charrette, c.1400, “a chariot, a cart,” from Old French charrete “wagon, small cart” (12c.), diminutive of charre (see car). Meaning “collaborative session” is by 1982.
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