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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... brace; atableman: false plate). Even English-language names of artifact types once popular in Louisiana have faded from use and from recall (fence board, lake bricks, North Shore house). Available dictionaries generally ignore most of ...
... braces, the trusses supporting a heavy ridge (which is also supported by longitudinal wind-braces), and an under-ridge.” A major reconstruction of similar complexity was required when the “new” (1849) Mansard roof of the Cabildo ...
... brace) is an “armpit”; a coyau is a roof “tail”; even less delicately, a croupe (end shed of a hip roof) is the “ass” end of the roof (Louisiana never developed the demi-croupe, or “half-assed” roof, well known in Normandy). Occasional ...
... bracing—techniques all common to eastern France (Bresse), where, not surprisingly, houses. 3. African. House. Melrose. Plantation. of similar form are common (an early photo shows the roof supported by posts). In eastern French farmhouses ...
... brace. In Norman French carpentry, a timber brace, often curved, that supports a horizontal beam from below, particularly a collar beam, springing from the truss blade (arbalétrier). This member is little-used in Louisiana's vernacular ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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