peristyle
IPA: pˈɛrʌstaɪɫ
noun
- A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc., or the yard enclosed by such columns.
- A porch surrounded by columns.
- (voodoo) A sacred roofed courtyard with a central pillar (the potomitan), used as a space for voodoo ceremonies, either alone or as an adjunct to an enclosed temple or altar-room.
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Examples of "peristyle" in Sentences
- If surrounding a building or court, it is called a peristyle; when projecting beyond the line of the building a portico.
- This was most evident in the neglected peristyle or temple that was once revered as sacred space where community gathered.
- In the peristyle is a semicircular fountain, on the margin of which were disposed several animals in bronze, representing a hunting scene.
- The body of it is adorned with twenty columns engaged in the wall, and the peristyle, which is open, with ten detached pillars that support the entablature.
- In the peristyle was a large earthenware jar, which had been broken across the middle and the pieces then sewed carefully and laboriously together with wire.
- The columns and wall at the extreme end of the peristyle were a mass of ruins, through the gigantic rents of which loomed a grassy hillock, its sides partially covered with clumps of furze.
- That close to the gate, called the House of the Triclinium, derives its name from a large triclinium in the centre of the peristyle, which is spacious and handsome, and bounded by the city walls.
- On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument.
- In the corridor surrounding the peristyle were the names and portraits of all the pharaohs from Menes the first ruler of Egypt to Ramses XII In the hypostyle, or hall for nobles, the geography and statistics of Egypt were presented pictorially, also the subject nations.
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