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char·rette

   [shuh-ret]
noun
a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
Also, charette.

Origin:
1965–70; < French: cart, Old French, equivalent to char chariot, wagon (see car1) + -ette -ette, from the idea of speed of wheels
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Charrette is always a great word to know.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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charrette
variant of charette.
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