hypostyle
[hahy-puh-stahyl, hip-uh-]Architecture
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adjective
having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
noun
a hypostyle structure.
Origin of hypostyle
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Hypostyle, literally “under columns,” but used to mean filled by columns.
ArchitectureThomas Roger Smith
It is not so large, however, and it contains no hypostyle hall.
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2)Georges Perrot
It is to this room that the name of hypostyle hall has been given.
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2)Georges Perrot
The hypostyle of the temple of the God Amen—that could be no other thing but one.
Egypt (La Mort De Philae)Pierre Loti
The gloom deepens in the hypostyle which follows the pronaos.
Egypt (La Mort De Philae)Pierre Loti
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