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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... planks locked at the corners with queue d'aronde (dovetail) corner notching and penetrated with windows protected with grilles de défense (wooden bars). The timber upper floor is elevated upon a rez-de-chaussée (ground floor) of fired ...
... Plank or board. See madrier, planche, pieu. aisselier; aissellier, aisseau (F; FC n, m). Dim of F ais, board; also aisselle (F, FC n, f). Malapropism from esselier modeled on Faisselle, armpit. A hanging knee or haunch; thus, a brace ...
... planks are overlapped but laid flat, as in board-and-batten construction, the term recouvrement partiel, partially covered, might be used. See chevauché, clapboard, (à) clin, lambrissé, recouvrir, revêtement. 15) assemblage moisé: a ...
... planks. Clapboarding. Étage en bardage de planches, the (raised first) floor (level) with a wall covering of clapboards (Goguet & Mangones 1989). See entourage, essentage (2), lambris (2). bardeau(x); bardot, also échandole (F; FC n, m) ...
... plank floor. bas d'armoire (F, FC n, m). F bas, the lower part of an armoire, or a low armoire that might support another cabinet (Fig. 12). Furn: a low armoire usually placed in the chambre of a farmhouse. bas de buffet (F, FC n, m) ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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