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vernacular
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vernacular
1. a local style of architecture, in which ordinary houses are built
2. designating or relating to the common name of an animal or plant
3. built in the local style of ordinary houses, rather than a grand architectural style


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The volume seems to have been a preview of the demotion of vernacularism in the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Building environments: perspectives in vernacular architecture, ... by Bronner, Simon J. / Journal of Social History
LATIN ARTISTRY IN THE COLLOQUIES REMARKABLE WORDS, PUNS, PERSONS, AND ADAGES The discussion of the vernacularism "snaphanus" touched upon the question of Erasmus' vocabulary.
Dutch proverbs and expressions in Erasmus' Adages, Colloquies, and ... by Wesseling, Ari / Renaissance Quarterly
It is the direct recreation of folk voices in the verse of the '30s and '40s, not the comparatively finicky vernacularism of the Renaissance '20s, that had the greatest enduring influence on poets and critics; and it is the Communist sympathy of Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, and their Depression cohort, not some inherently anti-Communist strain of folk ideology, that nursed the devotion to vernacular sounds and stanzas.
The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African-American Poetry, ... by Maxwell, William J. / African American Review
 
 
 
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