diastyle
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of diastyle
1555–65; < Latin diastȳlos < Greek diástȳlos with columns far apart, equivalent to dia- dia- + -stȳlos -style 2
Example Sentences
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Such will be the scheme established for diastyle buildings.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The columns are then to be distributed over the stylobates in the manner above described: close together in the pycnostyle; in the systyle, diastyle, or eustyle, as they are described and arranged above.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The construction will be diastyle when we can insert the thickness of three columns in an intercolumniation, as in the case of the temple of Apollo and Diana.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
In the diastyle, the height of a column should be measured off into eight and a half parts, and the thickness of the column fixed at one of these parts.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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