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architectural duck

architectural duck noun: a structure built in the style of duck architecture.

Noun

architectural duck (plural architectural ducks)

  1. A structure built in the style of duck architecture.
    • With Suffolk County's Big Duck, as with other architectural ducks, the building itself is the signage, a colossal, three-dimensional, representational advertisement.2020s, “Suffolk County, NY”, in Suffolk County, NY
    Synonyms:
    duck building, duck

Synonyms of architectural duck

Forms of architectural duck

pluralarchitectural ducks

Origin of architectural duck

From architectural + duck. The term was coined by architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in 1968; inspired by the original "Big Duck" building in Long Island, New York, built in 1931 to sell ducks and duck eggs.

Questions about architectural duck

What does architectural duck mean?
Architectural duck means a structure built in the style of duck architecture.
What part of speech is architectural duck?
Architectural duck is a noun.
What is the plural of architectural duck?
The plural of architectural duck is architectural ducks.

Words near architectural duck in the dictionary

  1. architectresses
  2. architects
  3. architectural
  4. architectural concrete
  5. architectural concretes
  6. architectural duck
  7. architectural ducks
  8. architectural panel
  9. architectural panels
  10. architectural pattern
  11. architectural patterns

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