France Flashcards
A walkway lined with trees and/or tall shrubs
Allee
A railing in landscape architecture often found along a walk or around a pool or other garden feature
Balustrade
A village or town in medieval France built especially for defense, usually laid out to a definite geometrix plan
Bastide
A wide street in a town or city, typically one lined with trees
Boulevard
Type of parterre garden characterized by the division of paths and beds to form an embroidery-like pattern
Broderie par terre
Small room providing seclusion
Cabinet
A large French countryhouse or castle often giving its name to wine made in its neighborhood
Chateau
In landscape design, European interpretations of Chinese or Japanese form
Chinoiserie
Dutch baroque garden feature; an iron-grilled implanted in a wall at the end of an allee of trees
Clairevoie
Architectural term for a three-sided courtyard
Cour d’honneur
Dead-end road, especially one ending in a circular turnaround
Cul-de-sac
Fruit tree or ornamental shrub whose branched are trained to grow flat against a wall
Espalier
Face of a building, especially the principal front that looks onto a street or open space
Facade
An arched support that extends from a column to the wall
Flying buttress
A grotesque carved human or animal face or figure projecting from the gutter of a building
Gargoyle
A small rustic hamlet of farmhouses, outbuildings and a mill similar structurea build as part of a landscaped estate
Hameau
Garden
Jardin
Ornamental water jet emitted from a fountain or pipe
Jet d’eau
Grand century, one of the richest periods
Le Grande Siecle
Middle Ages, began with the decline of the Western Roman Empire and ended with the Renaissance
Le Moyen Age
Excessive or self-conscious use of a distinctive style in art, literature or music
Mannerism
Roof that has four sloping sides, each of which becomes steeper halfway down
Mansard roof
A shallow recess, especially one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament
Niche
Goose’s foot, referring to a garden plan with three radiatinf avenues from a central point
Patte d’oie
An exterior set of steps and a platform at the main entrance to a large building
Perron
Small platform on which a person may stand to be seen by an audience
Podium
A tree whose top and branches have been cut off for a reason
Pollard
A kitchen garden
Potager
Of or arranged like rays or the radii of a circle
Radial
Of, relating to, or situated on the banks of a river
Riparian
18th century architectural style of decorarion characterized by elaborate ornamentation with pebbles and shells, typical of grottos and fountains
Rocaille
A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
Rond point
An unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design
Tapis vert
Latticework
Treillage
False perspective
Trompe l’oeil
A thin, plain-weave, semi-transparent fabric of cotton, wool or silk
Voile
