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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... (arpent), rod (perche), span (pagée de clôture), fathom (toise), pace (pas), yard (vara), and even foot (pied de roi). None of these measures was equivalent to its English cousin, and many had variants of different length applied in ...
... arpent was equal to 0.846 American acres, while the somewhat smaller arpent of Canada and Upper Louisiana equaled 0.84485 acres (Rolston & Stanton 1999:64, #515). See arpent, township and range. (Los) Adáes; Adayes, Adais (SpC n, m; E n) ...
... arpent. arpent, arpent superficial; arpen (F; FC n, m). Cadastral unit: 1) France: the arpent of Paris, an old agrarian areal unit equal to 100 square French perches of 18 pieds de roi each. Arpents are derived from a series of Roman ...
... arpent line was understood to be the rear boundary of the property unless otherwise specified (Hall 1970:47). See lindero, long lot. bourouette (FC n, f). Louisiana: wheelbarrow. See brouette. bourrage (F, FC n, m). F bourre (f) ...
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A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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