octastyle
/ok-tuh-stahyl/US // ˈɒk təˌstaɪl //
八角形风格,八面玲珑,八角式,八音盒式
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Architecture.
- : having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
Examples
There is no example of this sort in Rome, but in Athens there is the octastyle in the precinct of the Olympian.
If an octastyle is to be constructed, let the front be divided into twenty-four parts and a half.
It was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade.
Hexastyle: Having six columns; as in the case of octastyle for eight.
The hexastyle temple is necessarily more high and more narrow than the octastyle building.
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