Definitions for peristyle

peristyle per·i·style

Spelling: [per-uh-stahyl]
IPA: /ˈpɛr əˌstaɪl/

Peristyle is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 506 anagrams from letters in peristyle (eeilprsty).

Definitions for peristyle

noun

  1. a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
  2. an open space, as a courtyard, surrounded by a colonnade.

Origin of peristyle

1605-15; Latin peristȳlum Greek perístȳlon, noun use of neuter of perístȳlos surrounded with columns, equivalent to peri- peri- + -stȳlos -s

Examples for peristyle

Just look under the peristyle at the Bourse from three to five.

But she paused before the peristyle, turning to face the people again.

At the eastern end of the peristyle there was a pretty fountain, with a jet d'eau.

He was out in the peristyle now, bowing low before the captain-general.

At the bottom of the peristyle, on the right, is a triclinium.

Fauces, the passage from the atrium to the peristyle in a Roman house.

Tablinum, in a Roman house, the room between the atrium and the peristyle.

On the right is the passage called fauces, leading to the peristyle.

It had a peristyle of ugly columns at the top of a flight of steps.

A peristyle that has one such higher colonnade is called a Rhodian peristyle.

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