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
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
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 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 A. H. Smith
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
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