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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... shed of a hip 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 ...
... (shed or stable) was a medieval (market) stall or shed in northern France; an enlongement is a generic elongation; and a domestic bas-côté, or shed addition for a house, was originally the “lower side” aisle of a church. A magazin, a ...
... shed or surface. See cubierta (2, 3), eau, pente. aiguille, — reposante; éguille (F; FC n, f). F aigu, sharp, pointed. Lit: needle, repelling needle. In France, this term also refers to a spire and the hand of a watch. 1) King post, the ...
... shed attachment to the front of a building, or a covering over the entrance to a building. P: “Inclined covering of one shed extending from a building, ordinarily over the entrance, supported on one side by the wall and on the other by ...
... shed roof. See allonge, bas-côté. 2) An A-frame or shed-roofed structure added to colonial buildings, generally at the rear (Fig. 13-3). It was employed for storage and servants' quarters or for covering a four (oven). See fournil ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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