Usually means: Columned porch surrounding a courtyard.
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  1. peristyle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peristyle: Merriam-Webster
  3. peristyle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peristyle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peristyle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. peristyle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Peristyle, peristyle: Wordnik
  8. peristyle: Wiktionary
  9. peristyle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. peristyle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. peristyle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Peristyle, peristyle: Dictionary.com
  13. Peristyle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Peristyle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. peristyle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. peristyle: Rhymezone
  17. Peristyle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. peristyle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. peristyle: FreeDictionary.org
  20. peristyle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. peristyle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. peristyle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. peristyle: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc., or the yard enclosed by such columns.
noun:  A porch surrounded by columns.
noun:  (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.

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