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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... Piece Work v . Day Work . Retort Settings 14 41 Spice , R. P. Piece Work v . Day Work . Concrete Tanks • 14 18 West's Mechanical Stoker 26 Stone , Thos .. Simpson , P. Stevenson , G. W. Benevolent Fund : Retort Settings 91 , 96 , 97 42 ...
... piece of hardened steel is added to the dental hand piece , which is itself made of soft metal . A peculiarly arranged sliding key and collar prevent accidental separa- tion of the two parts of the hand piece . Claim - 1 . The hand ...
... Piece Rates Employers are at liberty to arrange with their workers for pay- ment either by piece or time . If the workers are paid by piece for doing work for which a minimum time rate , but no general minimum piece rate , has been ...
... piece is specifically ex- cluded from that property for which specific performance is sought by plaintiff Beard . This is because Golden Oak and Manor assigned their rights in the purchase contract to plaintiff Beard except they ...
... piece , 77.4 ; quarter - eagle , 64.5 ; $ 1 ( new ) , 25.8 . Silver- standard dollar , 412.5 ; half - dollar , 192.9 ; quarter - dollar , 96.45 ; 20 - cent piece , 77.16 ; dime , 38.58 ; half - dime , 19.2 ; three - cent piece , 11.52 ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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