| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bauhaus |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Bau·haus |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  bou hous |
| ADJECTIVE: | Of, relating to, or characteristic of a 20th-century school of design, the aesthetic of which was influenced by and derived from techniques and materials employed especially in industrial fabrication and manufacture. | | ETYMOLOGY: | German, an architecture school founded by Walter Gropius : Bau, construction, architecture (from Middle High German b , building, from Old High German, from ban, to dwell, settle; see bheu - in Appendix I) + Haus, house (from Middle High German hs, from Old High German).
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