Definition of "peripteral" []

• Architecture Having a single row of columns on all sides. (adjective)

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• "Again, most of the Grecian Doric temples were peripteral, that is, were surrounded with pillars on all the sides."
• "The pseudo-peripteral temple originated from southern Italy as a mixture between a Greek peripteros and an Italo-Etruscan podium temple."
• "At Sagalassos, the podium was absent, as was also the case in the mid-Hellenistic Temple of Leto at the Letoön in Xanthos (Lycia), which has a pseudo-peripteral arrangement at the back of its naos."