peristyle

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noun columns

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Word Origin & History

1610s, from French péristyle "row of columns surrounding a building" (mid-16c.), from Latin peristylum, from Greek peristylon "colonnade around a temple or court," noun use of neuter of peristylos "surrounded with a colonnade," from peri- "around" (see peri-) + stylos "pillar" (see stet).

Example Sentences for peristyle

Tablinum, in a Roman house, the room between the atrium and the peristyle.

Fauces, the passage from the atrium to the peristyle in a Roman house.

It had a peristyle of ugly columns at the top of a flight of steps.

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.

Just look under the peristyle at the Bourse from three to five.

But she paused before the peristyle, turning to face the people again.

At the bottom of the peristyle, on the right, is a triclinium.

On the right is the passage called fauces, leading to the peristyle.

At the eastern end of the peristyle there was a pretty fountain, with a jet d'eau.

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column

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colonnade