peripteral

American  

[puh-rip-ter-uhl] / pəˈrɪp tər əl /

adjective

1. (of a classical temple or other structure) surrounded by a single row of columns.

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peripteral British  

/ pəˈrɪptərəl /

adjective

1. having a row of columns on all sides

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Etymology

Origin of peripteral

1820–30; < Latin peripter ( on ) (< Greek, noun use of neuter of perípteros encompassed round with columns, literally, flying around; see peri-, -pterous) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

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peripteral

Without lateral columns; Ð applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The Ionic order was much used in the Greek cities of Asia Minor for peripteral temples.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow

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.

It is peripteral, and presents a row of six pillars fluted at base and top, with twelve on each side, making thirty-six in all.

From The Naples Riviera by Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp)

It was a peripteral octostyle, of the Doric order, with seventeen columns on the sides, each six feet two inches in diameter at the base, and thirty-four feet in height, elevated on three steps.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various