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- adjective architecture Falsely or imperfectly
peripteral .
Etymologies
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pseudo- + peripteral
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Examples
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So, while leaving all the rest in the same symmetrical proportions, they appear to have produced a new kind of plan with the new name "pseudoperipteral."
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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B.C., is a tetrastyle prostyle pseudoperipteral temple with a high _podium_ or base, a typical Etruscan cella, and a deep porch, now walled up, but thoroughly Greek in the elegant details of its Ionic order (Fig. 51).
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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