peristylium
Americannoun
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peristylia
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of peristylium
1665–75; < Latin peristȳlium < Greek peristȳ́lion, diminutive of perístȳlon peristyle
Example Sentences
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Besides, he is there only while he is asleep; for the rest he has his atrium and his peristylium.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
It shows the quadriform arrangement of the dark chambers around the open courts, of which one is the atrium, one the peristylium.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
They ran across the peristylium, the pirate chief with his burden no less swift than Agias.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
And the door, beaten from its fastenings by a mighty stroke, tumbled inward on to the mosaic pavement of the peristylium.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
Again the gladiators recoiled, and before they could return to the charge, back into the peristylium rushed Drusus, escaped from Cappadox, with that worthy and Mago and Agias, just released, at his heels.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
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