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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... Raised Cottage casa del almirante casa del comandante case maître charrette cheminée cheminée class class clocher Creole manor house Creole raised cottage crochet (de contrevent) croupe double shotgun église créole esse pris étage ...
... Raised Cottage, Spanish Custom House, New Orleans, Louisiana vèvè West Indian raised cottage xiii Recto Running Head Preface S its sands pread museums, xii VersoIllustrationsRunning Head.
... raised plantation house. The masonry ground floor became known, for the same reason, as the basement in English, elevating the “first floor” upward one story. When French inheritance law specified an equal division of land between the ...
... raised and/or passively bilingual speaker of Louisiana's creolized languages from the late colonial and postcolonial periods into the twentieth century. The processes of linguistic creolization affected the three colonial languages ...
... raise confusion for non-Francophones. The French name for collar beam, entrait retroussé, is masculine, but the synonymous pièce d'entrait is feminine. To complicate things a little more, either historically or under the process of ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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