hexastyle

American  

[hek-suh-stahyl] / ˈhɛk səˌstaɪl /

adjective

Architecture.

1. having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.

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hexastyle British  

/ ˈhɛksəˌstaɪl /

noun

1. a portico or façade with six columns

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adjective

1. having six columns

Example Sentences

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 Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)

The temple is a Doric peripteral hexastyle in antis, with 13 columns at the sides; its length is 104 ft., its breadth 45� ft., its height, to the top of the pediment, 33 ft.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

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 Galt, John

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.