Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having ten columns in front, or consisting of ten columns: as, a decastyle temple or portico.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
portico with tencolumns .
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Examples
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The hypaethral is decastyle in both front and rear porticoes.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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From this decastyle colonnade projected a tetrastyle portico, which introduced the people ascending from a flight of steps to a gigantic portal.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866
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