peristyle
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
peristyle (plural peristyles)
- A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc., or the yard enclosed by such columns. [from 17th c.]
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, page 143:
- One cannot, for example, see the Temple of Æsculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the peristyle have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, page 143:
- A porch surrounded by columns. [from 17th c.]
- (voodoo) A sacred roofed courtyard with a central pillar (the potomitan), used as a space for voodoo ceremonies, either alone or as an adjunct to an enclosed temple or altar-room.
- 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company 2004, p. 47:
- The peristyle is a roofed structure, open at the sides, in which most of the ceremonials and dances take place.
- 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books 2007, p. 35:
- Most peristyles in Haiti have hard-packed dirt floors that can soak up libations when they're poured on the ground in honor of the spirits.
- 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company 2004, p. 47:
- French: péristyle
- Italian: peristilio
- Russian: перисти́ль
- French: péristyle
- Italian: peristilio
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