Cane River Creole Community
Glossary
- arpent
- a French land measurement that equals .8849 acre.
- bousillage
- Mixed clay and Spanish moss or deer hair often used as nogging material in French and Spanish colonial era construction.
- cabinets
- Small, enclosed rooms, often with access only to the gallery.
- garçonnières
- Small, often detached structures where male guests or male teenagers stayed. In the case of Melrose, these are additions to the big house and not separate structures.
- hipped roof
- A roof with the sides and ends inclined.
- line village
- a village extended along the banks of a river.
- maison sur selles
- House on sills
- Nonc
- French - uncle
- poteaux-en-terre
- Posts in the ground.
- poteaux-sur-solles
- Posts on sills.
- sense of place
- A consciousness of one's physical surroundings or collective awareness of place expressed in cultural forms. Sense of place is generally associated with one's neighborhood, community, city or region.
- Tante
- French - aunt
- vernacular architecture
- Concerned with ordinary rather than monumental buildings; domestic architecture. In the Cane River Creole community and throughout Louisiana, the vernacular architecture reflects a combination of French, Spanish, Native American, and African influences.