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Peristyle
"Peristyle" in a Sentence (6 examples)
The house features an atrium with a rectangular peristyle and a covered corridor, the roof of which is supported by columns with Doric capitals.
Amelia is in the peristyle with Marcus, Quintus and Julia.
He cast a hasty glance around. Fortunately, there were no guests under the peristyle, and only two men, out of earshot, in the pinacotheca.
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.
The peristyle is a roofed structure, open at the sides, in which most of the ceremonials and dances take place.
Most peristyles in Haiti have hard-packed dirt floors that can soak up libations when they're poured on the ground in honor of the spirits.
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