pseudodipteral

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The pseudodipteral is so constructed that in front and in the rear there are in each case eight columns, with fifteen on each side, including the corner columns.

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  1. In classical arch., noting a disposition in the plan of a columnar structure resembling that of a dipteral building in the wide space left between the peristyle and the cella, but with the inner row of columns omitted, or, a disposition of plan like that of the Parthenon, in which there is an inner portico of six columns within the peristyle before both pronaos and opisthodomos, but no such secondary range on the flanks.

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  1. from Latin pseudodipteros, from Greek ψευδοδίπτερος, from ψευδής, false, + δίπτερος, two-winged: see dipteral.
 

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