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Definition of Amphiprostylar
1. Adjective. Marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure.
Definition of Amphiprostylar
1. Adjective. amphiprostyle ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphiprostylar
Literary usage of Amphiprostylar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... which are also amphiprostylar. Almost all the Dorio temples are ... they are,
as a matter of course, amphiprostylar, as has been just remarked ; so that ..."
2. Treatise on Architecture, Including the Arts of Construction, Building by Arthur Ashpitel, William Hosking (1867)
"... which are also amphiprostylar. Almost all the Doric temples are ... amphiprostylar,
as we have just remarked ; so that the former term alone is used in ..."
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