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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
peristyle
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A corridor from an exedra leads into the second, larger peristyle which had a gallery over the colonnade.
▪ From the atria one passes into the first peristyle which has an Ionic colonnade and a central fountain.
▪ The interior courtyard is not like an atrium or peristyle.
▪ The interior spaces were divided by peristyles bearing classical statuary, while other statues stood in the round-arched window spaces.
▪ The rooms are all grouped around one or more peristyles.
▪ These houses are laid out in terraces on the hillside with porticoes and colonnaded peristyles.
▪ They have a narrow frontage to the street and are planned around an atrium and peristyle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
peristyle

Colonnade \Col`on*nade"\, n. [F. colonnade, It. colonnata, fr. colonna column. See Colonel.] (Arch.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

Note: When in front of a building, it is called a portico; when surrounding a building or an open court or square, a peristyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
peristyle

1610s, from French péristyle "row of columns surrounding a building" (mid-16c.), from Latin peristylum, from Greek peristylon "colonnade around a temple or court," noun use of neuter of peristylos "surrounded with a colonnade," from peri- "around" (see peri-) + stylos "pillar" (see stet).

Wiktionary
peristyle

n. 1 colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc. 2 A courtyard; the space surrounded by a colonnade. 3 A porch surrounded by columns.

WordNet
peristyle

n. a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court

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Peristyle

Usage examples of "peristyle".

He gazed approvingly at the peristyle outside, with its fabulous frescoes of Vestal Virgins and magnificent marble pool and fountains.

A peristyle garden off to one side, adjacent to the Porticus Margaritaria and on full view to the windows of the Via Nova insulae.

As he entered the tablinum, he heard a voice from the porticoes of the peristyle beyond, which, musical as it was, sounded displeasingly on his ear--it was the voice of the young and beautiful Glaucus, and for the first time an involuntary thrill of jealousy shot through the breast of the Egyptian.

For she glanced out of her open window and saw Sinon prancing blithely down the colonnade on the far side of the peristyle garden.

The streets were full of pyres, so were the light wells of every insula and the peristyles of all the houses.

A moment later, the Saxons brushed arrogantly past the servants who held the doors leading from the colonnaded hall out to the peristyle garden.

Charlie entered the peristyle garden, empty at this hour, and pushed his cart toward the west wing, then paused in the darkness to bolt down five dipperfuls of fig-laden gruel as fast as he could swallow, not bothering even to chew.

As he entered the tablinum, he heard a voice from the porticoes of the peristyle beyond, which, musical as it was, sounded displeasingly on his ear—it was the voice of the young and beautiful Glaucus, and for the first time an involuntary thrill of jealousy shot through the breast of the Egyptian.

The many buildings of the Palace were separated by peristyle porticoes alternating with open courtyards and gardens.