decastyle
Americanadjective
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having ten columns.
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(of a classical temple) having ten columns on one front or on each front.
noun
Etymology
Origin of decastyle
1720–30; < Latin decastȳlos < Greek dekástȳlos, equivalent to déka deca- + -stȳlos -style 2
Example Sentences
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The hypaethral is decastyle in both front and rear porticoes.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
In other words Agrippa’s portico was decastyle; the actual portico is octastyle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
From this decastyle colonnade projected a tetrastyle portico, which introduced the people ascending from a flight of steps to a gigantic portal.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
The temple was a decastyle peripteral structure of the Ionic order, standing on seven steps and possessing double rows of outer columns 60 ft. high, twenty-one in each row on the flanks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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