What is "charrette"

n. 1 (context US English) A period of intense work, especially group work, undertaken to meet a deadline. Sometimes spelled charette 2 (alternative spelling of charret English)

A charrette (American pronunciation: ), often Anglicized to charette or charet and sometimes called a design charrette, is an intense period of design or planning activity.

A charrette (or charette or design charrette) is a term describing a period of intense design activity, often immediately preceding a deadline.

Charrette may also refer to:

• Charrette, the French word for cart
• The Charrette Corporation, a Boston-based retailer of art and architectural supplies and services.
• La Charrette, was the smallest cinema in the UK, built from a disused railway carriage
• " Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart" or "Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette", an Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes