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Peristyle - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun peristyle

is colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.

peristyle

English

(wikipedia peristyle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 143:
    • One cannot, for example, see the Temple of Æsculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the peristyle have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings.
  • A courtyard; the space surrounded by a colonnade.
  • A porch surrounded by columns.

    • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.