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

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 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 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

The architecture is said closely to approach that of the hexastyle hyp�thral Temple of P�stum.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 113, December 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various