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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... cent. New Orleans: an architectural advertisement for the sale of a piece of property to be auctioned. These posters were publically displayed at the Saint Louis Church, later at a central auction house for 30 days prior to the auction ...
... cent., they replicated the intricately pieced wooden ceilings of Andalusia in churches and the houses of the wealthy ... cent. Louisiana: a person or immigrant to Louisiana of Anglo-American, rather than of French or Frenchspeaking ...
... cent.: Coined “by white Louisiana natives of French or Spanish heritage to underscore their differences from Americans or foreign French settlers. Both in its French form and in its reference to seniority, the term symbolized for ...
... cent. Italianate style (Brown 1999:511). See arc (surbaissé). ardoise (Fn, f). Slate, used for roofing (Fig. 9). arena (Spn, f). Sand. arenisca (Sp n, f). Sandstone. See grès (roche). arêtier; aritie, arrêtier (F; FC n, m). Farête ...
... cent. and was the most common type of scarf in well-built 18th-cent. Louisiana timber buildings (Diderot 1762–72 vol. 7, planche II, no. 2, fig. 30). Spensamble a rayo de Jupiter con llave. See about, alaise, greffage, scarf joint. 7 ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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