peristyle

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On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument.

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  1. noun A series of columns surrounding a building or enclosing a court.
  2. noun A court enclosed by columns.

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  • Near the middle of this peristyle is a noble effigy of a royal conqueror, with long flowing beard, attended by courtiers with hands clasped on their breasts. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • In the corridor surrounding the peristyle were the names and portraits of all the pharaohs from Menes the first ruler of Egypt to Ramses XII In the hypostyle, or hall for nobles, the geography and statistics of Egypt were presented pictorially, also the subject nations. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
  • They drew a peristyle, as it appeared to the eye, as accurately as we can do. —  Gryll Grange
  • Inside a palaestra, the peristyle ought to be laid out as described above 3. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
  • If the columns of the peristyle are to be made in the Doric style, take the modules which I have given in the fourth book, on the Doric order, and arrange the columns with reference to these modules and to the scheme of the triglyphs Illustration: From Durm PLAN OF THE HOUSE OF THE VETTII, POMPEII 8. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
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  1. French péristyle, from Latin peristȳlum, from Greek peristūlon, from neuter of peristūlos, surrounded by columns : peri-, peri- + stūlos, pillar; see stā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French péristyle = Spanish peristilo = Portuguese peristylo, peristilo, perystilio = Italian peristilo, peristilio, from Latin peristylum, peristylium, from Greek περίστυλον, a peristyle, neuter of περίστυλος, with pillars round the Wall, from περί, round, + στῡλος, a column.
 

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