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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... roof if we wished to?3 Over one hundred “Norman”-style roofs survive in historic buildings throughout southern Louisiana and as far north as Natchitoches, as well as in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. The significance of these complex and ...
... roof of the Cabildo Building in New Orleans (const. 1795–1803) burned in 1988 and had to be reproduced (Wiser 1992; Wilson and Huber 1988). The terms “Norman roof” and “Norman roof truss” are popularly used among architectural ...
... roof) is the “ass” end of the roof (Louisiana never developed the demi-croupe, or “half-assed” roof, well known in Normandy). Occasional French terms are more appropriate to Louisiana than to France. For example, the two-wheeled ...
... roof extension”) is masculine and its gender is specified; the gender of the modifying noun protection is feminine and is not specified. Genders may raise confusion for non-Francophones. The French name for collar beam, entrait ...
... roof extension. New Orleans after ca. 1794: an extension of the roof over the sidewalk, usually at a pitch lower than the roof. Prior to ca. 1830 abat-vents of banquette cottages were supported on iron rods (Fig. 11), between ca. 1830 ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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