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See also:PERIPTERAL (Gr. irepi, See also:round, and 7rTep6v, a wing) , in See also:architecture, the See also:term applied to a See also:temple or other structure where the columns of the front See also:portico are returned along its sides as wings at the distance of one or two intercolumniations from the walls of the naos or See also:cella . Almost all the See also:Greek temples were See also:peripteral, whether Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian (see TEMPLE) . |
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