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Brutalist en · ADJ

Etymology

From brutal + -ist.

Meanings

  1. Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete
    • [...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain. 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:

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most Brutalist Degree=Sup lexicographic
more Brutalist Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Translations (1)

pt brutalista (pertaining to Brutalism)

Brutalist en · NOUN

Etymology

From brutal + -ist.

Meanings

  1. An architect who used this style

Forms

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Brutalists Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (1)

pt brutalista (an architect who used Brutalism)