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noun
- A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple etc., or the space thus enclosed.
- 1942: One cannot, for example, see the Temple of í�sculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings " Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 143)
- A porch surrounded by columns.
Etymology: From French péristyle, from classical Latin peristylum, from Hellenistic Greek ', noun use of the neuter form of ' "surrounded by columns", from - + á "pillar".
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