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There was a French race horse in 1789 called 'gratte-ciel' (meaning skyscraper). In nautical terms, about the same time, it was the name of a light sail at the top of a mast. That description transferred to mean an ornament on top of a building. The urban building name came from Chicago in 1888 and applied to a steel framed building of at least 10 storeys. The first building was for an Insurance company which was actually built in 1870.

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