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hexastyle

[ hek-suh-stahyl ]

adjective

Architecture.
  1. having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.


hexastyle

/ ˈ³óÉ›°ì²õəˌ²õ³Ù²¹Éª±ô /

noun

  1. a portico or façade with six columns
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. having six columns
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The Grade II listed Doric hexastyle portico is topped by a triglyph frieze and a pediment.

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The architecture is said closely to approach that of the hexastyle hyp�thral Temple of P�stum.

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Hexastyle, heks′a-stīl, adj. having six columns, of a portico or temple having six columns in front.

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The temple is of the kind called peripteral hexastyle.

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The form of the building is that known as amphiprostyle peripteral hexastyle.

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