peristyle englannista kaikille kielille - Sanakirja.org (englanti-*)

A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc., or the yard enclosed by such columns.
A porch surrounded by columns.
(voodoo) A sacred roofed courtyard with a central pillar (the potomitan), used as a space for voodoo ceremonies, either alone or as an adjunct to an enclosed temple or altar-room.

One cannot, for example, see the Temple of Æsculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the peristyle have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings.

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