Definition of "hexastyle" [hex•a•style]

• Having six frontal columns in the portico, as in some Greek temples. (adjective)

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• "There are considerable remains of this building, particularly those beautiful female figures called Caryatides, which support, instead of columns, three of the porticoes; besides three of the columns in the north hexastyle with the roof over these last columns, the rest of the roof of this graceful portico fell during the siege of Athens, in 1827."
• "The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns."
• "But if the building is to be systyle and monotriglyphic, let the front of the temple, if tetrastyle, be divided into nineteen and a half parts; if hexastyle, into twenty-nine and a half parts."