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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... ground-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 ...
... (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, houses. 3. African. House. Melrose.
... ground on four posts. It is used to shelter turkeys and chickens, which mounted and entered it using a ladder. Also referred to as a juchoir (Claudet & Claudet 1981:41, 74). Seebasse-cour, cotte, gallinero, juchoir, poulailler. 3) The ...
... ground floor functions as the piano nobile, or principal living floor. Most of these houses were constructed 1830–1860 and combine Classical and Italianate motifs with Creole features such as cast-iron front balconies. A heavy emphasis ...
... ground removed from civilization (Daigle 1934). 6) A coastal salt dome, also called an île (Fig 10; Rooney, Zelinsky & Louder 1982:136). Seeîle. anta (E n). Pl: antae. L anta. A pillar or column set at the sides of an open portico or ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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