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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... 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 and 1861 many were supported on coyaux (rafter sprockets), and after the Civil War they ...
... usually capped with a gable roof, often with pedimented dormers. It may be dressed in late Greek Revival (Fig. 65), or Italianate styling. The latter may exhibit milled jigsaw work including a spindled gallery frieze, cornice returns, a ...
... usually scissor braces (Zurita Ruiz 1977). See échafaud. anglo plan (EC n). Analy: a base module composed of halland-parlor plan similar to those popular in the 18th cent. in the Carolina Tidewater. This base module underlies a family ...
... (usually due to sudden death). In theory, Santo Domingo was the Audiencia for Louisiana after the Louisiana territory was ceded to Spain in 1762, but few if any appeals went there. See capitanía-general, gobierno, Louisiane (2). auditor ...
... usually communicating with the interior through doors or windows. Balconies are usually less than full facade width (Fig. 94). They are a European contribution to American architecture. See gallery, piazza, veranda. 2) The balustrade of ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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