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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... pointe, and a larger (landlocked) hill also as an île. Old and rather obscure words such as platin, which originally referred to platelike objects in folk French, were modified to refer to newly encountered features such as shallow ...
... Pointe Coupée Parish; (3) St. Martin Parish; and (4) the Bayou Lacombe and Bayou Liberty area of St. Tammany Parish on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain (Valdman et al. 1998:3). The Cane River area of Natchitoches Parish also had ...
... Pointe Coupée Parish. In Creole vernacular carpentry it is always straight. It should not be confused with the jambe de force, which springs from a tie beam and supports the truss blade or the collar beam. See esselier, gousset (2–3) ...
... (Pointe Coupée Parish), and Madame John's Legacy (Dumaine St., New Orleans). They went out of style after ca. 1800 and enjoyed a modest revival during the Italianate style, 1859–1880. See arco, arco rebajado, plate-bande, segmental.
... Pointe à l'assiette, Dish Point on the Mississippi River, where Iberville lost a valued silver dish in 1699 (Walker 1883). 2) Haiti: deguiné, a calabash.3) A course of masonry, such as bricks. See arasement, rang. assiminer, aciminier ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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