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What does Doric mean?

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Proper noun
  1. An ancient Greek dialect spoken in ancient times.
  2. A dialect of Lowland Scots spoken in the northeast of Scotland.
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It is unclear whether Alcmaeon wrote in the Doric dialect of Croton or in the Ionic Greek of the first Presocratics.
The imposing entrance portico supported by six fluted Doric columns was probably the first exercise in classicism in Deadwood.
Distantly inspired by the propylaea on the Acropolis in Athens, it was the first of the ceremonial Doric gateways to rise in modern Europe.
A visit to Ohio Statehouse offers you some of the best examples of Doric architecture in the United States.
The truth is that Doric is simply in speech the vernacular and in writing the demotic.
It contrasts the formal Doric columns of the front porch with the informal shingled supports for the side porch.

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