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Peristyle vs Collonade - What's the difference?

peristyle | collonade |

As nouns the difference between peristyle and collonade

is that peristyle is peristyle while collonade is .

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.

    • collonade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)