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peripteral
[ puh-rip-ter-uhl ]
adjective
- (of a classical temple or other structure) surrounded by a single row of columns.
peripteral
/ pəˈrɪptərəl /
adjective
- having a row of columns on all sides
Word History and Origins
Origin of peripteral1
Word History and Origins
Origin of peripteral1
Example Sentences
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.
The Parthenon was of the Doric order of architecture, and was of the form termed peripteral octastyle; that is to say, it was surrounded by a colonnade, which had eight columns at each end.
They are all planned like a temple in antis,—the earliest form, from which the peripteral easily follows.
The temple is a Doric peripteral hexastyle in antis, with 13 columns at the sides; its length is 104 ft., its breadth 45� ft., its height, to the top of the pediment, 33 ft.
The temple was a decastyle peripteral structure of the Ionic order, standing on seven steps and possessing double rows of outer columns 60 ft. high, twenty-one in each row on the flanks.
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