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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In architecture, primitively Doric; noting any style, member, etc., as a column or capital, which exhibits the rudiments of the later-developed Grecian Doric, or is considered as having contributed to the evolution of the Grecian Doric.
  • noun In architecture, primitive or rudimentary Doric. See cut under hypogeum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Arch.) Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.

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