stylobate
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stylobate
1555–65; < Latin stȳlobatēs, stȳlobata < Greek stȳlobátēs, equivalent to stȳlo- stylo- 2 + -batēs ( ba- (base of baínein to step) + -tēs agent suffix)
Example Sentences
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They both stood upon a platform twelve steps above the forum, themselves raised further by seven steps and a stylobate.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
It is from the designs of Mr. Cundy, and consists of a colonnade of the Corinthian order, raised upon a plain joined stylobate.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 by Various
This is also true of the stylobate, or substructure of a colonnade, and of pediments and other features.
From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Matthew Luckiesh
Having reached a great square he saw the portico of a palace in the Classic style, whose Corinthian columns reared their capitals of arborescent acanthus seventy metres above the stylobate.
From Penguin Island by Anatole France
Had the architect wished equality of height for the eastern and western colonnades he would have been compelled to place the stylobate of the western two courses lower.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by G. W. (George Wicker) Elderkin
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