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Peristyle
Definitions
- 1 A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc., or the yard enclosed by such columns.
"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."
- 2 a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court wordnet
- 3 A porch surrounded by columns.
- 4 A sacred roofed courtyard with a central pillar (the potomitan), used as a space for voodoo ceremonies, either alone or as an adjunct to an enclosed temple or altar-room.
"The peristyle is a roofed structure, open at the sides, in which most of the ceremonials and dances take place."
Etymology
From French péristyle, from Classical Latin peristȳlum, from περίστυλον (perístulon), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”).
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