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
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Origin of decastyle
1720–30; < Latin decastȳlos < Greek dekástȳlos, equivalent to déka deca- + -stȳlos -style 2
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Decastyle, dek′a-stīl, n. a portico with ten columns in front.
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The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.
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In other words Agrippa’s portico was decastyle; the actual portico is octastyle.
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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.
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The hypaethral is decastyle in both front and rear porticoes.
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