dipteral
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of dipteral
1805–15; < Latin dipter ( us ) (< Greek dípteros; see Diptera) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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In everything else it is the same as the dipteral, but inside it has two tiers of columns set out from the wall all round, like the colonnade of a peristyle.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
First there is the temple in antis, or ναος ἑν παραστἁσιν as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
He did so by dispensing with the inner rows of thirty-eight columns which belonged to the symmetry of the dipteral temple, and in this way he made a saving in expense and labour.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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