peripteral
Americanadjective
adjective
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
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A temple will be peripteral that has six columns in front and six in the rear, with eleven on each side including the corner columns.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The temple seems to have been hexastyle peripteral, but all trace of the cella has disappeared.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
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
The form of the building is that known as amphiprostyle peripteral hexastyle.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
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 Noah Webster
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