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peristyle

noun as in colonnade

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East of the kitchen and yard is a narrow passage connecting the peristyle with the garden .

It should be remembered that in the best houses the bedrooms were preferably in the second story of the peristyle.

A peristyle that has one such higher colonnade is called a Rhodian peristyle.

He was out in the peristyle now, bowing low before the captain-general.

With what eagerness did I run every morning at sunrise to respire the perfumed air in the peristyle!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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