Esplanade Street a mansion-lined street in New Orleans, populated primarily by upper-class Creoles.
appointments furniture; equipment.
reception day one day each week, an upper-class woman was expected to stay home and receive visitors. The day of the week was established when a woman married, and custom demanded she entertain on that day from then on.
mulatto a person who has one black parent and one white parent.
les convenances social conventions; protocol.
futures a contract for a specific commodity bought or sold for delivery at a later date.
