octastyle
[ ok-tuh-stahyl ]
adjectiveArchitecture.
having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
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How to use octastyle in a sentence
There is no example of this sort in Rome, but in Athens there is the octastyle in the precinct of the Olympian.
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusIf an octastyle is to be constructed, let the front be divided into twenty-four parts and a half.
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusIt was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade.
Hexastyle: Having six columns; as in the case of octastyle for eight.
How to judge architecture | Russell SturgisThe hexastyle temple is necessarily more high and more narrow than the octastyle building.
How to judge architecture | Russell Sturgis
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