Definition of "tetrastyle" []

• A building (especially a portico) that has four columns (noun)

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• "A third method of designating or distinguishing the temples is by the number of columns in front, thus temples are called tetrastyle, hexastyle, octastyle, that is having five, six, or eight columns."
• "Also, it turned out that it was not a distylos in antis (two columns set between projecting side walls), but a tetrastyle prostylos (four columns set in front of the cella) shrine built in the Corinthian order."
• "These approaches are guarded by two churches, S. Maria di Monte S.nto and S. Maria dei Miracoli, similar in appearance, with oval domes and tetrastyle porticoes that look like ecclesiastical porters 'lodges."