Bousillage (bouzillage,[1]bousille, bouzille) is a mixture of clay and grass or other fibrous substances used as the infill (chinking) between the timbers of a half-timbered building. This material was commonly used by 18th-century French colonial settlers in the historical New France region of the United States and is similar to the material cob and adobe. In French torchis has the same meaning or the meaning of a loaf of this material.[1]
^ abMcDermott, John Francis. "bousillage, bouzillage, n. m.". A Glossary of Mississippi Valley French, 1673-1850. St. Louis, 1941. 34. Print.
Bousillage (bouzillage, bousille, bouzille) is a mixture of clay and grass or other fibrous substances used as the infill (chinking) between the timbers...
also called bousillage or bouzillage, especially in French Vernacular architecture of Louisiana of the early 1700s. The materials of bousillage are Spanish...
plantation in Port Allen, Louisiana, USA. It was built circa 1830 with bousillage. It belonged to Jean Dorville Landry, a sugar planter prior to the American...
arts and crafts, as bedding for flower gardens, and as an ingredient in bousillage, a traditional wall covering material. In some parts of Latin America...
in France and by French settlers in French Canada and Upper Louisiana. Bousillage French architecture French colonization of the Americas New France Poteaux-en-terre...
areas where stone rubble and mortar were available. Other infills include bousillage, fired brick, unfired brick such as adobe or mudbrick, stones sometimes...
double-pitched roof. It was built of cypress and pine, and its walls are bousillage (mud and moss). The house "was most probably built by Valerie Bordelon...
erected in 1800 with the labor of people enslaved by Pierre Baillio. The bousillage Creole house and restored period outbuildings are now a showcase for tourists...
was constructed entirely of mortise and tenon construction. It features bousillage, a natural insulation that was once common in the walls of Cajun and Creole...
twice from its original location. It is a one-and-one-half story frame bousillage house, located in 1997 across from the church square in the small community...
small stones (pierrotage) or a mixture of mud, moss, and animal hair (bousillage) was used to pack between the logs. Many times the infill would later...
expanded in 1837. The original house was a 1+1⁄2-story Creole cottage of bousillage construction that was one room wide and two rooms deep and had a front...
Broussard House is one of the largest extant examples of colombage and bousillage construction. List of the oldest buildings in Louisiana National Register...
plastered with a native mixture of mud, sand, Spanish moss and animal hair (bousillage), then painted. The ground story and second floors contain seven service...
built with heavy oak timbers set about six inches apart and infilled with bousillage, a mixture of mud, straw, and horsehair that hardened to a cement-like...
homes had some or all of these features: Timber frame with brick or "Bousillage" (mud combined with moss and animal hair) Wide hipped roof extends over...
briquette-entre-poteaux (brick-between-post) colombage walls made with bousillage. Mather House: another Creole cottage in St. James Parish National Register...
of brick (briquette entre poteaux) or a mixture of mud and moss called bousillage, 6) multiple French doors, and 7) French wraparound mantels. Creole architecture...
into a family of cooks, she was taught how to debone a chicken and make bousillage, a building material made from mud and Spanish moss, at an early age....
method of construction uses a type of infill between the logs called bousillage, a mud and debris mix (straw, grass, and hair typically). The house is...
landing on a sill plate. The spaces between the boulin are filled with bousillage (reinforced mud) or pierrotage (stones and mud). Surviving examples of...
at the site included construction materials (fired wall clay known as bousillage, roof tiles), dishware (French faience, Mexican majolica, Chinese porcelain...
19th-century buildings built using the French colonial construction technique of bousillage. Instrumental in the establishment of the district was the historical...