PSEUDOPERIPTERAL Definition & Meaning

pseudoperipteral

[ soo-doh-puh-rip-ter-uhl ]

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adjective

Architecture.

having a freestanding colonnade at each end, with engaged columns at the sides.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of pseudoperipteral¹

First recorded in 1840–50; pseudo- + peripteral

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This temple, 59 ft. by 117 ft., is of the Corinthian order, hexastyle, pseudoperipteral, with a portico three columns deep, and is raised on a podium 12 ft. high.

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So, while leaving all the rest in the same symmetrical proportions, they appear to have produced a new kind of plan with the new name "pseudoperipteral."

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