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
The temple is of the kind called peripteral hexastyle.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
This once elegant edifice was of the Doric order, a hexastyle, the columns twenty-seven feet in height.
From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
The temple seems to have been hexastyle peripteral, but all trace of the cella has disappeared.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
It is necessary to emphasize the fact that the passage back of the hexastyle was the normal means of access to the Pinakotheke.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by G. W. (George Wicker) Elderkin
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