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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... fences, boats, barns, mills, and houses, with their often intricately assembled wooden parts. The secrets of their methods of fabrication are now largely forgotten. Although a diminishing abundance of materials from the colonial ...
... (fence board, lake bricks, North Shore house). Available dictionaries generally ignore most of the technical realms of knowledge of the colonial architect, engineer, builder, carpenter, surveyor, notary, and even farmer and planter. It ...
... fences of the grand champ on January 1, in order to determine whether they were in repair and, if not, what repairs were required—these to be undertaken by the private holders by April 15 (Dorrance 1935:24). Arbitres also functioned as ...
... fences around the grand champ) or the construction and maintenance of roads, levees, and bridges (Ekberg 1998:124– 6). See commune, parvis. assiette; assise, lasyet (F; FC n, f). 1) France and Louisiana: a plate; also a seat or place at ...
... fence, often a five-rail fence, called a cinq-pieux barrière. These were used for large livestock, while a porcherie could get by with a trois-pieux barrière (Knipmeyer 1956:141). The term is also generalized to a fence made of ...
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A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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