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
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 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
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