A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, PeopleLSU Press, 1 sep 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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... horizontally upon piece of wood.” Novel usages gradually acquired local acceptance and became regionalisms. Although such processes had been ongoing in France for a millennium, they were accelerated in the West Indies and then the ...
... (horizontal) hewn 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 ...
... horizontal beam from below, particularly a collar beam, springing from the truss blade (arbalétrier). This member is littleused in Louisiana's vernacular Creole architecture, though one finds it occasionally: e.g., in Austerlitz ...
... horizontal (tie beams, collars) and inclined (rafters). Individual members are carved and beaded with decorative inlays tinted black. They are decorated with applied star-shaped and other geometric facings (Carley 1997:13–5). The method ...
... horizontal struts (joists), and riostras, or braces, usually scissor braces (Zurita Ruiz 1977). See échafaud. anglo plan (EC n). Analy: a base module composed of hall-and-parlor plan similar to those popular in the 18th cent. in the ...
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Topical Indexes | |
Materials of Construction | |
Historic Building Hardware Decorative Fittings and Finishes Index 13 Tools and Implements | |
Furniture Furnishings and Certain Implements of the Creole House Index 15 Some French and Creole Verbs Index 16 Geographical References | |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | |
Bibliography | |
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A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, People Jay Edwards,Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2004 |
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