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Word: Peripter
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 17th century; earliest use found in Edward Phillips (b. 1630), writer and biographer. From French périptère or its etymon classical Latin peripteros peripteros
Definition:
A building surrounded by a single peristyle or row of columns; the encompassing peristyle itself.
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