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Peristyle
A continuous row of columns surrounding a building or a court.
See also: Peripteral
Rules that use the word
The peristyle garden. Make the peristyle a third longer across than it is deep, its columns as high as the colonnades are wide, and the spaces between them not less than three nor more than four diameters.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Walls and Openings, The Temple, The Classical World.
Nearby in the glossary
Pediment · Pendentive · Pergola · Peripteral · Perpendicular tracery · Perron · Piano nobile · Picturesque