Noun:

கட்டிடத்தின் சுற்றி இருக்கும் தூண்கள்,

peristyle's Usage Examples:

"The temple was peripteral with 46 columns in its peristyle.

At the entrance were a peristyle court for loungers and a latrine: hence the bather passed into the Apodyterium (dressingroom), the Frigidarium (cold room) fitted with a cold bath for use at the end of the bathing ceremony, and a series of hot rooms - the whole resembling many'modern Turkish baths.

It is in the Doric style, of white marble, and eleven columns of the peristyle and one of the pronaos are now standing.

The temple was peripteral with 46 columns in its peristyle.

Externally it is an Ionic peripteros, enclosing suites of rooms, large and small, grouped round a small interior Doric peristyle.

The peristyle, if we compare the measurements of the stylobate with those of the drums built into the wall of the Acropolis, may be concluded to have consisted of six Doric columns at the ends and twelve at the sides.

There are still standing nine columns of the south side and two of the north of the peristyle, and one of the antae and an inner column of the pronaos.

led up to the temple of Jupiter-Baal, now much ruined, having only 6 of the 54 columns of its peristyle erect.

At the eastern end of the Acropolis a little circular temple of white marble with a peristyle of 9 Ionic columns was dedicated to Rome and Augustus; its foundations were discovered during the excavations of 1885-1888.

Peristyle >>At the eastern end of the Acropolis a little circular temple of white marble with a peristyle of 9 Ionic columns was dedicated to Rome and Augustus; its foundations were discovered during the excavations of 1885-1888.

TETpa-, four, and (7T06, a portico), the term in architecture given to a rectangular court round which on all four sides is carried a covered portico or colonnade; the same as peristyle.

THOLOS (06Xos), the term given in Greek architecture to a circular building, with or without a peristyle; the earliest examples are those of the beehive tombs at Mycenae and in other parts of Greece, which were covered by domes built in horizontal courses of masonry.