There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
"xystus" a stadium, so designed that great numbers of people may have plenty of room to look on at the contests between the athletes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
From the portico we ascend by three steps to the xystus. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The viridarium, or xystus, surrounded with spacious porticoes, was once filled with the choicest flowers, and refreshed by the grateful murmur of two fountains. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In front of it is a xystus, fragrant with violets, where the sun's heat is increased by reflection from the cryptoportico, which, at the same time, breaks the northeast wind. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Passing through the tablinum, we enter the portico of the xystus, or garden, a spot small in extent, but full of ornament and of beauty, though not that sort of beauty which the notion of a garden suggests to us. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Used in a sentence in 1856 by Macaulay: " I directed the workmen to set creepers in my xystus.". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
244 xusto — the xystus, “a covered corrider in the gymnasium where the athletes exercised in winter.”. From Wordnik.com. [Oeconomicus] Reference
English Dictionary, is xystus n. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The private part comprised the peristyle, bed-chambers, triclinium, œci, picture-gallery, library, baths, exedra, xystus, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
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