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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • 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.

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  • proper noun a style in modernist architecture and modern design, from "Staatliches Bauhaus" in Weimar, Germany

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  • noun a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German, an architecture school founded by Walter Gropius : Bau, construction, architecture (from Middle High German , building, from Old High German, from būan, to dwell, settle; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots) + Haus, house (from Middle High German hūs, from Old High German).]

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From German (Staatliches) Bauhaus

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