hexastyle

American  

[hek-suh-stahyl] / ˈhɛk səˌstaɪl /

adjective

Architecture.

1. having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.

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hexastyle British  

/ ˈhɛksəˌstaɪl /

noun

1. a portico or façade with six columns

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adjective

1. having six columns

Example Sentences

The Grade II listed Doric hexastyle portico is topped by a triglyph frieze and a pediment.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2019

But if the building is to be systyle and monotriglyphic, let the front of the temple, if tetrastyle, be divided into nineteen and a half parts; if hexastyle, into twenty-nine and a half parts.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829 by Various

This temple, 59 ft. by 117 ft., is of the Corinthian order, hexastyle, pseudoperipteral, with a portico three columns deep, and is raised on a podium 12 ft. high.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

We have no example of this in Rome, but at Teos in Asia Minor there is one which is hexastyle, dedicated to Father Bacchus.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio