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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... floor level of a raised plantation house. The masonry ground floor became known, for the same reason, as the basement in English, elevating the “first floor” upward one story. When French inheritance law specified an equal division of ...
... floor or ceiling) porte (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 ...
... floor or roof of an outbuilding. It projects forward one to two ft. from the wall of the facade and is ordinarily not supported with posts. See auvent, jetty, larmier. 4) Louisiana, an overhang or roof extension. New Orleans after ca ...
... floor is elevated upon a rez-de-chaussée (ground floor) of fired brick and covered with a shingled hip roof supported with quatre-dechiffre (figure four) bracing—techniques all common to eastern France (Bresse), where, not surprisingly ...
... floor. 3) The hearth of a fireplace. These extended outward from the front of the chimney. They were bricked or tiled, and in Louisiana, supported by a special support structure (demi-voûte) that can be viewed by looking upward from ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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