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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1055 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a See also:column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)  , in See also:architecture, the See also:term used to differentiate between its characteristics in various countries and at different periods (see ARCHITECTURE) . The derivation of the word suggests that it was at first employed to distinguish the classic styles, in which the See also:column played the See also:chief See also:part, and it would be more appropriate to speak of the Doric and Ionic styles than orders (q.v.) . In the See also:Assyrian, See also:Sassanian and perhaps the See also:Byzantine styles, the column was a secondary feature of small importance, whereas the See also:Greek, Doric and Ionic styles are based completely on the. column and the See also:weight of the superstructure it was required to carry . In See also:France the term is sometimes employed of the individuality of See also:character which is found in an artist's See also:work . For the use of the term See also:style " in See also:botany see See also:FLOWER .

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