Peristyle
WordNet
noun
(1) A colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court
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Etymology
From French péristyle, from classical Latin peristylum, from Hellenistic Greek περίστυλον, noun use of the neuter form of περίστυλος ‘surrounded by columns’, from περί + στῦλος ‘pillar’.
Noun
- A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple etc..
- 1942: 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 — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 143)
- A courtyard; the space surrounded by a colonnade.
- A porch surrounded by columns.