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单词 prairie style
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prairie stylen.adj.

Brit. /ˈprɛːrɪ ˌstʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈprɛri ˌstaɪl/
Forms: also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: prairie n., style n.
Etymology: < prairie n. + style n.With use as noun compare later prairie school n. 2. Earlier examples such as the following do not represent a fixed collocation:1848 G. Catlin Catlin's Notes Eight Years' Trav. II. xxvii. 265 Jim had rode in the true prairie style, without using the bridle.
Originally U.S.
A. n.
A style (esp. of architecture) considered characteristic or reminiscent of the North American prairies.Associated esp. with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959), who designed a number of houses and other buildings with a distinctive emphasis on horizontal lines, and low-pitched roofs with wide overhanging eaves. Cf. prairie school n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > other styles
transition1730
pasticcio1750
symmetrophobia1809
rococo1835
flamboyantism1846
collegiate Gothic1851
vernacular architecture1857
Neo-Grec1867
modernism1879
wedding-cake1879
Queen Anne1883
Colonial Revival1889
Chicago school1893
Dutch colonial1894
English colonial1894
monumentalism1897
vernacular1910
international style1911
Churrigueresque1913
postmodernism1914
prairie style1914
rationalism1918
lavatory style1919
functionalism1924
Mudéjar1927
façadism1933
open plan1938
Wrenaissance1942
pseudo1945
brutalism1953
open planning1958
neo-Liberty1959
Queen Annery1966
Jugendstil1967
moderne1968
strip architecture1976
high-tech1978
1914 Sunday Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 22 Mar. 20 (advt.) The Prairie style of landscape gardening.
1916 Archit. Rec. Dec. 592/1 No name is perfect, but the name ‘prairie style’ has been accepted by one man who has sent me an itemized list of $6,000,000 worth of work which he declares was influenced primarily by the prairie.
1963 S. Lloyd et al. World Archit. 313 The ground-hugging horizontal planes of Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie style.
2002 New Yorker 18 Nov. 41/3 I like the idea of a Long Island Prairie style... This is a floor-plan house—it is dictated by the flat plane.
B. adj.
Executed or carried out in a manner characteristic or reminiscent of the prairies.
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1952 J. K. Howard Strange Empire xvii. 347 The ‘marriage’—prairie style, without benefit of clergy—occurred April 28, 1881.
1967 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 21 Sept. 14/1 The show is..based on a western theme,..with several familiar prairie-style numbers, as ‘Empty Saddles in the Old Corral’.
1977 Times 21 Feb. 4/3 Mr Jimmy Carter's prairie-style diplomacy was damaging détente.
2004 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch (Nexis) 16 May i4 The house..was one of Wright's early designs of prairie-style architecture.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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