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

See Examples For:

hexastyle

The Grade II listed Doric hexastyle portico is topped by a triglyph frieze and a pediment.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2019

Let the front of a Doric temple, at the place where the columns are put up, be divided, if it is to be tetrastyle, into twenty-seven parts; if hexastyle, into forty-two.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

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

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

That it does not so stand must be due to the fact that the architect sought likewise to provide for the view of the observer who approached the Pinakotheke from behind the hexastyle.

From Problems in Periclean Buildings by G. W. (George Wicker) Elderkin

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