How To Use peristyle In A Sentence
- For days before, public drapers were to be seen clinging cross-legged to obelisk and peristyle; moving in spread-eagle fashion, hung in a jacket of sail-cloth attached to cables, across the fronts of buildings, looping garlands, besticking banners and spreading tapestries. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
- 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. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
- One should perceive a bit further in the distance the colonnade forming the peristyle of the temple of Berecynthia.
- This form, upon which our modern atria are based, was enclosed on all sides by buildings with roofs sloping to a columned peristyle or walkway around a courtyard.
- The presence of gardens and especially of a peristyle make one think of a domus, or patrician residence.
- In the peristyle is a semicircular fountain, on the margin of which were disposed several animals in bronze, representing a hunting scene. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
- As usual in Al-Islam, it is a hypaethral building with a spacious central area, called Al-Sahn, Al-Hosh, Al-Haswah, or Al-Ramlah,7 surrounded by a peristyle with numerous rows of pillars like the colonnades of an Italian cloister. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- If surrounding a building or court, it is called a peristyle; when projecting beyond the line of the building a portico. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- 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. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
- The original building comprised a courtyard of enormous size with a full peristyle of eight columns on a side.
