单词 | peristyle |
释义 | peristyle/ˈpɛrɪstʌɪl /noun Architecture 1A row of columns surrounding a space within a building such as a court or internal garden or edging a veranda or porch.This form, upon which our modern atria are based, was enclosed on all sides by buildings with roofs sloping to a columned peristyle or walkway around a courtyard....
1.1A space such as a court or porch that is surrounded or edged by a peristyle.One should perceive a bit further in the distance the colonnade forming the peristyle of the temple of Berecynthia....
OriginEarly 17th century: from French péristyle, from Latin peristylum, from Greek peristulon, from peri- 'around' + stulos 'pillar'. |
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