peripteral
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of peripteral
1820–30; < Latin peripter ( on ) (< Greek, noun use of neuter of perípteros encompassed round with columns, literally, flying around; see peri-, -pterous) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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The temple was peripteral with 46 columns in its peristyle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
It is peripteral, and presents a row of six pillars fluted at base and top, with twelve on each side, making thirty-six in all.
From The Naples Riviera by Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp)
It was a peripteral octostyle, of the Doric order, with seventeen columns on the sides, each six feet two inches in diameter at the base, and thirty-four feet in height, elevated on three steps.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
It was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub
The form of the building is that known as amphiprostyle peripteral hexastyle.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
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