单词 | prairie school |
释义 | prairie schooln. Chiefly North American. 1. A local school in a community on the North American prairies. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school writing schoola1475 rectory1536 spelling school1704 greycoat1706 rural school1734 Charter School1763 home school1770 Philanthropine1797 British school1819 side school1826 prep school1829 trade school1829 Progymnasium1833 finishing-school1836 field schoola1840 field school1846 prairie school1851 graded school1852 model school1854 Philanthropinum1856 stagiary school1861 grade school1869 middle school1870 language school1878 correspondence school1889 day continuation school1889 prep1891 Sunday school1901 farm school1903 weekend school1907 Charter School1912 folk high school1914 pre-kindergarten1922 Rabfak1924 cram-shop1926 free school1926 crammer1931 composite school1943 outward-bound1943 blackboard jungle1954 pathshala1956 Vo-Tech1956 St. Trinian's1958 juku1962 cadre school1966 telecentre1967 academy2000 academy school2000 1851 National Era (Electronic text) 27 Feb. 33 This picture is not an exaggerated one; neither is it..to be taken as a fair sample of all prairie schools, or of all upon our prairie. 1889 F. E. Willard Glimpses of Fifty Years 501 This..gentleman gave me my first certificate to teach,..in a wild prairie school at Harlem.., west of Chicago. 1952 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 18 Feb. 4/6 How rural schoolteachers keep seven or eight classes going simultaneously is..not much less of a mystery to me because..I later taught the same kind of prairie school for three years. 1997 Denver Post (Nexis) 1 Aug. b2 The reunion of graduates of the Adams County prairie school, which thousands of students attended between 1888 and 1963, will be held on the former grounds of the school in Commerce City. 2. Usually with capital initials. A group of architects (or occasionally other artists, writers, etc.) whose style reflects or derives from that seen as typical of the prairies.Associated esp. with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959); cf. prairie style n. ΚΠ 1908 F. L. Wright in Archit. Rec. Mar. 157/1 We of the Middle West are living on the prairie. The prairie has a beauty of its own and we should recognize and accentuate this natural beauty, its quiet level. Hence, gently sloping roofs, low proportions, quiet sky lines, suppressed heavy-set chimneys and sheltering overhangs, [etc.]. 1915 W. Miller Prairie Spirit Landscape Gardening viii. 22/1 (caption) How ‘prairie architecture’ has been adapted to woodland. House put inside the woods—not outside... Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.] 1922 Christian Sci. Monitor 13 Nov. 8/1 An indigenous architecture, known as the ‘Chicago School’ and sometimes the ‘Prairie School’ is developing in Chicago. 1930 F. L. Pattee New Amer. Lit. xiii. 210 Harriet Monroe has been a more active influence..as the founder of the magazine ‘Poetry’, which was to become the rallying center of the new Prairie School. 1964 Amer. Q. 16 508 The passing of the [Chicago] School is a comment upon the loss of this humanism as is also the fact that its second generation (the Prairie School) turned to residential architecture. 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 May vi. 68 Jensen..helped to inaugurate a Prairie School of landscape design to complement Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School of architecture. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851 |
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