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单词 prairie school
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prairie schooln.

Brit. /ˈprɛːrɪ ˌskuːl/, U.S. /ˈprɛri ˌskul/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: prairie n., school n.1
Etymology: < prairie n. + school n.1With sense 2 compare earlier prairie style n.
Chiefly North American.
1. A local school in a community on the North American prairies.
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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.
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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).
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