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école

American  
[ey-kawl] / eɪˈkɔl /

noun

French.

plural

écoles
  1. school.


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In the village of Ikongo‑ecole, part of the community, trees have begun growing among the neatly aligned rice plants tended by local farmer Yuma Lokotomba -- a practice known to improve soil fertility and other growing conditions.

From Barron's

Viollet-le-Duc did not study at the state-run École des Beaux Arts, but came to architecture by means of drawing.

From The Wall Street Journal

To see them alongside Viollet-le-Duc’s restoration drawings is to realize that he dodged a bullet when he shunned the École.

From The Wall Street Journal

London, known for its raw creative energy and rising talents, is where Dujancourt launched her label in April 2022 after training at the renowned arts and design school Ecole Duperre in Paris, and fashion hub Central Saint Martins in London.

From Barron's

A chance meeting with Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and lauded for his designs for the Vanderbilt family, led Roth to Hunt’s firm in New York and then to that of the architect Ogden Codman Jr., a tastemaking friend of Edith Wharton.

From The Wall Street Journal