, in the ancient Architecture, a place or building encompassed with a row of columns on the inside; by which it is distinguished from the periptere, where the columns are disposed on the outside.
Peristyle is also used, by modern writers, for a range of columns, either within or without a building.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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