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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... lower side” aisle of a church. A magazin, a barn to the Cajuns, was a shop or a secured storehouse, while an entourage was an “encircling” (gallery) and a galerie itself was a “Galilee” (a church portico like those of the Holy Land) ...
... lower than the roof. Prior to ca. 1830 abat-vents of banquette cottages were supported on 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 ...
... lower half of the poster showed a perspective from the street, illustrating exactly what the property looked like on a particular day. Many of these are rendered with considerable artistic professionalism. Artists were paid $12 to $15 ...
... lower end (Chase 1949:71). 2) Circum-Caribbean Latin America: a commercial store or shop. Almacenero/a, a shopkeeper or warehouseman. Seebodega, magasin. almada (PC n, f). Sierra Leone, 1570s: a porch, such as that on a native house ...
... Lower Louisiana: a linear unit equivalent to 191.86 English ft. (Ekberg 1996a:473). de front (FC n, m). Linear arpents measured along the front of a river or bayou. The widths of landholdings and concessions were measured in arpents de ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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