单词 | peristyle |
释义 | peristylen.adj. Architecture. A. n. 1. A colonnade or row of columns surrounding a temple, court, cloister, etc.; the court or space surrounded by such a row of columns. Cf. peristylium n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > colonnade peristyle1612 peristylium1658 quadriporticus1711 colonnade1718 colonnado1725 orthostyle1831 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise i. v. 17 All manner of compartments, bases, perystiles, plots, buildings, &c. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Peristyle is sometimes taken for a row or rank of Columns, as well without as within any Edifice;..Sometimes this was call'd Antiprostyle. 1794 Rudim. Anc. Archit. (ed. 2) 107 The internal colonnade to the hypaethral temple is a peristyle. 1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles I. iv. 72 When the exterior of a temple was not surrounded by a peristyle or colonnade, the temple was said to be apteral. 1878 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. 425/1 Round the peristyle were arranged the chambers used by the men. 1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle i. ii. 15 Behind it was a garden, enclosed in a peristyle. 2003 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 24 Aug. l1 I trod its [sc. Split's] streets under a blazing sun, stopping for a cold beer in the shadow of Roman columns in the peristyle. 2. The columned porch of a church or other large building; a veranda surrounded by pillars. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > columned structure peristyle1694 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. vii. 24 You go through a large Peristile, alias a long Entry set about with Pillars. 1789 tr. J.-F. de Bourgoing Trav. Spain I. 162 The door of the church is announced by a fine peristyle. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks I. vii. 239 Crowding and crushing..about the peristyle and steps of the church. 1889 Harper's Mag. July 194/2 Supporting the four peristyles of the cathedral there are no less than forty-eight of these monoliths. 1973 Country Life 1 Nov. 1329/1 The steps at the south end of the peristyle lead up to the Prothyron, or entrance porch. 1999 Washington Times (Nexis) 12 July c8 Guests..sipped Dom Perignon on the marble Peristyle, or open central porch. B. adj. Having a peristyle; of the nature of a peristyle. rare before late 20th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > surrounded by colonnade peristylar1841 peristyle1862 1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 303 That the Mausoleum was composed of an oblong peristyle building. 1991 Apollo Mar. 166/1 The Rotunda dominates the half-plan, flanked on both sides by sculpture halls leading to peristyle garden courts. 2001 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Dec. 10 The peristyle lobby—a bright forest of slim, polished concrete columns supporting a smooth, elegant plane of a ceiling—feels much bigger. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1612 |
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