peripteral
/puh-rip-ter-uhl/US // pəˈrɪp tər əl //UK // (pəˈrɪptərəl) //
周边,周边的,周边环境,周边地区
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : surrounded by a single row of columns.
Examples
The peripteral arrangement, which is a constant principle in Greek architecture, is no more than a rare accident in that of Egypt.
The temple was hexastyle and peripteral, and is supposed to have had fourteen columns on the sides.
It occurs in the peripteral temple at Elephantiné, but that is quite an exception (Fig. 141).
It was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade.
Again, most of the Grecian Doric temples were peripteral,--surrounded with pillars on all the sides.
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