A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, PeopleLSU Press, 2004 - 304 pagina's Throughout Louisiana's colonial and postcolonial periods, there evolved a highly specialized vocabulary for describing the region's buildings, people, and cultural landscapes. This creolized language -- a unique combination of localisms and words borrowed from French, Spanish, English, Indian, and Caribbean sources -- developed to suit the multiethnic needs of settlers, planters, explorers, builders, surveyors, and government officials. Today, this historic vernacular is often opaque to historians, architects, attorneys, geographers, scholars, and the general public who need to understand its meanings. With A Creole Lexicon, Jay Edwards and Nicolas Kariouk provide a highly organized resource for its recovery. Here are definitions for thousands of previously lost or misapplied terms, including watercraft and land vehicles, furniture, housetypes unique to Louisiana, people, and social categories. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 79
... (FC n, m). Upper Louisiana: the practice of open- 1989:2; Ancelet, Edwards & Pitre 1991:6–7). See Acadian, 6. Louisiana Prairie Landscape. 1 Recto Running Head abandon • Acadie. Aa. ing the communal field to grazing by animals following the ...
... FC n, m). L axis. Also bastaing. Plank or board. See madrier, planche, pieu. aisselier; aissellier, aisseau (F; FC n, m). Dim of F ais, board; also aisselle (F, FC n, f). Malapropism from esselier modeled on Faisselle, armpit. A hanging ...
... n, m). Arabic yubb, a cistern (AIS 1857: No. 306). allée (F, FC n, f). 1) France: a tree-lined road, passage, or driveway. 2) Louisiana: a boulevard or an entrance driveway leading from the river road to a plantation big house. It is ...
... n,m). Northern Mexico: loft. See fenil, galetas, grenier, mansarde, tapanco (2). apaquois, apakois (FC n). Algonkian: a mat of reeds used for covering of a cabane (Fig.25). Indian houses throughout the Mississippi Valley were often ...
... FC n, f). A mirror-fronted armoire with a single door (Harrison 1997:752–3). armoire acadienne (cajenne) (F, FC n, f). See Cajun armoire. armoire créole (FC n, f). See creole armoire. armurier (Fn, m). An armorer or gunsmith. One ...
Inhoudsopgave
Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, People Jay Edwards,Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2004 |
A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, People Jay Edwards,Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2004 |