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architectural duck

noun

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *dwōg-✻
  2. derived from *dōkaz✻
  3. derived from *dōk✻
  4. derived from *dōc✻
  5. derived from doeck
  6. borrowed from doek
  7. compounded as architectural duck — “architectural + duck”

Definitions

  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.

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