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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... iron rods (Fig. 11), between ca. 1830 and 1861 many were supported on coyaux (rafter sprockets), and after the Civil War they were supported on wooden brackets (Fig.15). Seebanquette cottage, Creole cottage. 5) Rural S-central Louisiana ...
... iron front balconies. A heavy emphasis is placed on elaborate door surrounds and on classic-style cornices or ... iron ring used for harnessing, and for hanging a mosquito bar from a tringle, or iron rod, on a tester bed.
... iron rod, on a tester bed or a gallery. See baire, moustiquaire, piton. anneau annulaire (Fn, m); annular ring, annulet (E n). A small fillet ring placed somewhat below the capital of a Doric or Tuscan column (Fig. 45); common in ...
... iron hoops (Price & Cruzat 1926:553, 594). Baille à laver (bassin à mains), washtub. Seebak, baquet, évier. bain (Fn, m). Bath. Salle de bain, bathroom. baire, bier, bar, ber, berre (FC n, f). Furn: a mosquito bar, or net covering for a ...
... iron age. The tradition was carried into the western European countries by the Celtic invasions (Winberry 1976). See also chevalet à copeaux, essente, merrain. 2) Both terms were used occasionally in reference to split clapboards; thus ...
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