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. |
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... Mississippi Valley and New France. Particularly useful were the works of Ward A. Dorrance on Ste. Geneviève French (1935), John Francis McDermott on the French of Upper Louisiana (1941), and the eighteenth-century Detroit lexicon of ...
... Mississippi Valley the French verb accorer—to prop up a boat on land—became a generalized nauticalism for propping anything. A soute or storage room was originally a bunker in the hold of a ship, and the French West Indian Creole term ...
... Mississippi River. Many Spanish vernacular entries in our lexicon rely upon both published and unpublished studies of vernacular architecture from Spanish Florida (La Florida) and the Caribbean and its rimlands—the Dominican Republic ...
... Mississippi), as well as in cross references at the ends of entries (e.g., See fajilla, trenzado). Within a main entry, important variations of the principal term, as well as noteworthy phrases in which it occurs, are set in italics ...
... Mississippi-Alabama Gulf Coast ca. 1840–1870. A fivebay, one- or one-and-one-half-story, front-galleried, center-hall-plan house. It is smaller than a “villa” but otherwise similar. In the city an abat-vent may substitute for a front ...
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A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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