Araeostyle

Araeostyle (Gr. Ancient Greek: αραιος, "weak" or "widely spaced", and Ancient Greek: στυλος, "column") is an architectural term for the intercolumniation given to those temples where the columns had only timber architraves to carry.[1]

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  1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Araeostyle". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 312.


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