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 Smith, A. H.
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
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.
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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