2) dipteral. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...as certain Greek temples. 2. Biology Dipterous. From Greek dipteros, temple with a double peristyle : di-, di- + pteron, feather, wing; see pet- in Appendix I....

3) mausoleum. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...by the ancients one of the Seven Wonders of the World. 1Presumably in the form of an Ionic peristyle set on a lofty and massive base that contained the sarcophagus,...

4) atrium. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and complex Roman dwellings, the private apartments had a court of their own, called the peristyle, and the atrium served merely as a semipublic reception hall. The...

5) 81. The Only Way by Louis V. Ledoux. Rittenhouse, Jessie B., ed. 1917. The Little Book of Modern Verse
...laggard virtue mock with shrug and smile; 20 With Cleon s creed rang court and peristyle, Then sank the sun in far Sicilian seas. From brows ignoble fell the violet...

6) 189. Abode. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...yard, passage. square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market place,...

7) Preface to Cromwell. Paras. 61-90. Victor Hugo (1827). 1909-14. Famous Prefaces. The Harvard Classics
...that destroys it. Indeed, what could be more improbable and absurd than this porch or peristyle or ante-chamber—vulgar places where our tragedies are obliging enough...

8) b. Economy, Society, and Culture. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...imported Attic Pentalic marble). Private architecture was marked by the addition of the Greek peristyle garden to the Italic atrium house and by the construction...

9) 5. The Hellenistic World, to 30 B.C.E. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...Wealthier citizens resided in more elaborate private houses built around a colonnaded court (peristyle). Innovations in construction included the vault and the use...

10) Paras. 300–399. Balzac, Honoré de. 1917. Old Goriot. Vol. XIII, Part 1. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...and let down the step. As Eugène stepped out of the cab he heard smothered laughter from the peristyle. Three or four lackeys were making merry over the festal appearance...