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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... doors and shutters shall be double-hung and paneled like those of M. Carraby's house at the corner of St. Louis and Bourbon Streets” and that “there shall be in the parlor and dining room two chimney pieces like those in the house of W ...
... (door parts) rabot (wood planes) racial categories scie (saws) teja (roofing tiles) toit (roof types) viga (beams) Unattested entries: An asterisk (*) designates an unattested term or phrase. This symbol is rarely used. In a few cases we ...
... door, which was traditionally kept open; the wall protected the hearth from wind. 2) A chimney cap or cover. See cheminée (23). 3) Québec: the upper floor or roof of an outbuilding. It projects forward one to two ft. from the wall of ...
... door latch, bolt, crossbar. See targette, verrou. 2)—depuerta, door knocker. See argolla, llamador, marteau de porte. alfajilla (Sp, SpCn, f). 1) Spain: wood for windows and.
... doors. 2) Mexico: a purlin. See panne. alfarda (Sp n, f). From Arabic al-farsh, a floor separating two levels of a house. 1 ... door, and French windows with corniced surrounds and storm or louvered shutters. In Anglo neighborhoods it is ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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