Ariège ''orris''
In scholarly studies
In higher Vicdessos, a part of the French ''département'' of Ariège, the word ''orri'' traditionally referred to a summer mountain habitat consisting of an enclosed area for gathering sheep and a number of stone huts used as dwellings or for cheese making. In the 1960s, when the long-deserted ''orris'' of Ariège were rediscovered by scholars, their ancient name was erroneously construed as applying only to the "stone hut" used as a seasonal dwelling. Since then, the new meaning has caught on and is now prevalent in touristic literature.In touristic literature
An ''orri'' is a type of small stoneRoussillon ''orris''
According to French scholar André Péré, in the Roussillon region ''orri'' means "an enclosure surrounded by a dry stone wall in which young lambs or such animals are kept."André Péré, Les cabanes en pierres sèches des hautes vallées des Nestes (Aure et Louron) (Pyrénées centrales), in ''L'Architecture rurale'', CERAR (Paris), tome 3, 1979, pp. 62-67, in particular p. 62. The name of the shepherd's hut was ''barraca'' in Catalan. 18th-century archival records in French contain mentions of ''orri'' and ''barraque'' (the Frenchified form of ''barraca'') as in "l'orri avec les barraques qui y sont construites pour la demeure des gardiens" ("the orri together with the barraques which are built in it to serve as abodes for the guardians").See also
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