Crossword clues for doric
doric
- Order from Greek physician involving king and emperor
- Architectural style of Ancient Greece
- Like some architecture in Greenland or Iceland?
- Play Little Richard classic
- Detectives went north to seize gold order
- Type of column
- Like some Greek columns
- Ancient Greek dialect
- Type of Greek column
- Like the Parthenon's architecture
- Order of columns
- Corinthian's cousin
- Parthenon column style
- Like the Parthenon's columns
- Like some Greek architecture
- Greek-column order
- Greek order of architecture
- Greek architectual column style
- Classical building style
- Relating to a classical order of architecture
- Parthenon descriptor
- Order with simple capitals
- Order of some columns
- Order of Greek architecture
- Order of antiquity
- Like a classical column
- Kind of column in ancient Greece
- Greek order
- Greek column category
- Greek architectural type
- Fluted style
- First order of Greek architecture
- Dialect of ancient Greece
- Column category
- Classical Greek style
- Classical Greek order
- Alternative to Corinthian
- Kind of order
- Like some columns
- Like some classical architecture
- That's an order!
- Ionic alternative
- Architectural order including circular column tops
- Architectural style
- Column type
- Classical column style
- Corinthian alternative
- Column style
- Kind of column in architecture
- Column with a simple capital
- Order of ancient Greeks
- Dialect in ancient Greece
- The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in the Peloponnesus
- Greek architectural order
- Old Greek dialect
- Greek architectural style
- Greek dialect
- Language of ancient Rhodes
- Classical style
- Peloponnesian dialect
- Greek column style
- Lincoln Memorial column style
- Parthenon style
- Pindar's dialect
- Ancient architectural style
- Classic style of architecture
- A boldface type
- Greek party with wealth not half evident
- Greek detectives turning up to apprehend men
- Classic order: cook most of cereal
- Order of architecture
- Order from Pole back in charge
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doric \Dor"ic\, a. [L. Doricus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the Dorians.]
Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
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(Arch.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
Note: This order is distinguished, according to the treatment of details, as Grecian Doric, or Roman Doric.
(Mus.) Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.
Doric \Dor"ic\, n. The Doric dialect.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, see Dorian; in reference to the architectural order, 1610s. The Doric dialect in ancient Greek theater was broad and rustic, hence it has been applied in English to northern and Scots dialects (1837).
WordNet
adj. oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture [ant: ionic, corinthian]
n. the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in the Peloponnesus
Wikipedia
Doric may refer to:
- Doric, of or relating to the Dorians of ancient Greece
- Doric Greek, the dialects of the Dorians
- Doric order, a style of ancient Greek architecture
- Doric mode, a synonym of Dorian mode
- Doric dialect (Scotland)
- Doric Club, a paramilitary organization which fought against the Lower Canada Rebellion
- Doric Park, a park located in Liverpool, England
- Doric Organ, a 1960s Combo organ produced in Italy
- SS Doric (1883), a British ocean liner operated by White Star Line
- SS Doric (1923), another ship operated by White Star Line
- Amedeo, formerly known as Doric Lease Corp, a German-based leasing and investment company
Usage examples of "doric".
Marsh of Charlotte, nothing as grand as Belvidere, of course, but it has a fine pedimented entrance porch supported by fluted Doric columns, and it is quite suitable for a town-dwelling attorney of modest means and no pretensions to aristocracy.
At the intersection of Canopic and Royal Avenues he invaded the agora, a vast open space surrounded on all four sides by a wide arcade with a dark red back wall, and fronted by blue-painted Doric pillars.
It is not the familiar Doric of Syracuse, nor even the obscure Elymi or Sicani, for I have spoken with many Sicilian merchants and soldiers in my life, and none, during my discreet queries, recognized any of the words I attempted to parrot from the recollections of my infancy.
Chances are the house will be the best presented in its immediate surroundings, with cobble lock driveway, new windows, aspirational Doric columns supporting the porch extension, and a new Nissan Micra for her indoors.
Unfortunately she was not a Scotchwoman, to whom some national affinities might have appealed, and she could not understand the racy Doric of her husband and his friends.
Richard fixed his eyes on the floor, while the Bantam in rudest Doric commenced his narrative.
His eyes widened in awe as he drank in the sight of a regal warrior woman, a doric helm pushed back on her head, a golden breastplate adorning her torso.
I'll wind up in some cow college trying to keep a roomful of Eskimos and myself awake while I drone on about Doric and Corinthian columns.
She thanked John and quickly crossed to building A, a Greek Revival structure faced with a massive pediment supported by Doric columns.
Agility's not in it, when it comes to Palladian, daring alone will carry the day and, though the first storey's graced with a hefty caryatid whose bulbous loincloth and tremendous pects facilitate the first ascent, the Doric column on her head proves a horse of a different colour, I can tell you.