A charrette (or charette or design charrette) is a term describing a period of intense design activity, often immediately preceding a deadline. Charrette may also refer to: Charrette, the French word for cart La Charrette, the smallest cinema in the UK, built from a disused railway carriage "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart" or "Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette", an Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes See also Charette (disambiguation) fr:Charrette