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What does peripteral mean?

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Adjective
  1. (architecture) peripterous
  2. (zoology) peripterous
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The peripteral temple to the right, is the Typhonium, and immediately behind the great temple is a small one consecrated to Isis.
The peripteral arrangement, which is a constant principle in Greek architecture, is no more than a rare accident in that of Egypt.
The temple was hexastyle and peripteral, and is supposed to have had fourteen columns on the sides.
But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below.
The last time I was at Paris I remember being struck by seeing for the first time a peripteral building made really useful.
This complex, constructed in the classical method of opus caementitium can clearly be identified as a peripteral temple on a podium.

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