hypostyle
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of hypostyle
1825–35; < Greek hypóstȳlos resting on pillars, equivalent to hypo- hypo- + -stȳlos -style 2
Example Sentences
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Squared-off columns and massive beams form an underwater hypostyle hall that is at once claustrophobic — dank, close and cool — and yet seemingly limitless.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2016
A profusion of stout, mushroom-shaped columns gives the floors the feeling of a hypostyle hall in an ancient Egyptian temple.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2015
In the hypostyle, or hall for nobles, the geography and statistics of Egypt were presented pictorially, also the subject nations.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Alexander Glovatski
The second rectangle contains a small hypostyle hall with six columns, and the sanctuary, with their subsidiary chambers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
They made no use, as we have already explained, of those isolated supports whose employment resulted in the hypostyle halls of Egypt and Persia, in the naves of Greek temples and Latin basilicas.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
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