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Definition of Astylar
1. Adjective. Lacking columns or pillars.
Definition of Astylar
1. a. Without columns or pilasters.
Definition of Astylar
1. Adjective. (architecture) Lacking columns or pilasters ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Astylar
1. having no columns [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astylar
Literary usage of Astylar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1847)
"That species of astylar composition which is now generally qualified as the
Italian " palazzo" mode, admite of very great variety and freedom of design, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"M.) astylar (from Gr. i-, privative, ... thus the Ricardi and Strozzi palaces in
Florence arc astylar in their design, in contradistinction to Palladio's ..."
3. A History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1873)
"58), inasmuch as it brings into instructive contrast the two great principles of
design then in vogue in Rome—the astylar, which may also be called the ..."
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