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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... (joists), and riostras, or braces, usually scissor braces (Zurita Ruiz 1977). See échafaud. anglo plan (EC n). Analy: a base module composed of halland-parlor plan similar to those popular in the 18th cent. in the Carolina Tidewater ...
... joists to the wall plates and sills (Fig. 8e). Spensamble a media madera a cola de milano (kite-tail lap notch). 6) assemblage à trait de Jupiter simple; assemblage à trait de pupitre: an oblique scarf joint used to tie sills and plate ...
... joists (través) to support the feet of the rafters (chevrons). It is used on clissage (wattle-and-daub) walled houses, where the joists lap completely over the wall plates (sablières), leaving no other appropriate foundation for the ...
... joists are fastened by nails to the studs. Lightweight wind braces are fitted into notches in the outer faces of the studs. This method of construction was invented in Chicago in the 1830s and rapidly spread throughout the entire nation ...
... joist. It was considered the mark of professional carpentry and was applied wherever the ceiling joists were meant to be seen from below in the living spaces of a house. (It was not done in storage spaces, such as those of the rez ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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