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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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).

单词	prairie style
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.adj.1914
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