hexastyle
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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The Grade II listed Doric hexastyle portico is topped by a triglyph frieze and a pediment.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2019
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
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.
The temple seems to have been hexastyle peripteral, but all trace of the cella has disappeared.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
Then, whether the temple is to be tetrastyle, hexastyle, or octastyle, let one of these parts be taken, and it will be the module.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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