Peripteral

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Architecture Having a single row of columns on all sides.
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  • adj. Surrounded by a single row of columns
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See apteral.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In architecture, surrounded by a single range of columns: said especially of a temple in which the cella is surrounded by columns. See cut under opisthodomos.
  • n. Any peripteral building, especially a Greek or Roman temple with columns on every side. Also peripteros. See cut at opisthodomus.
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  • adj. having columns on all sides
    • Equivalent
    pseudo-peripteral    monopteral    peristylar   
    Variant
    apteral   
     
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