If surrounding a building or court, it is called a peristyle; when projecting beyond the line of the building a portico.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

In the peristyle is a semicircular fountain, on the margin of which were disposed several animals in bronze, representing a hunting scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

In the circle at the south end of the peristyle are: 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference

On the circle at the north end of the peristyle are: 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference

A double flight of steps leads you to a peristyle of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

From the atrium the peristyle is entered by a large door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

A footman, who knew me, was standing under the peristyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

Their arrival in the peristyle occasioned some excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

The temple was peripteral with 46 columns in its peristyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

Over the peristyle were written some of the sayings of great men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

On either side of the central rotunda the peristyle of the Palace of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference

The floor, which is lower by a step than the peristyle, is paved with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

But she paused before the peristyle, turning to face the people again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference

The passage from the peristyle, 7, the position of the elliptic chamber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

A peristyle that has one such higher colonnade is called a Rhodian peristyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

At the eastern end of the peristyle there was a pretty fountain, with a jet d'eau.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Diana, Bacchantes, etc. At the bottom of the peristyle, on the right, is a triclinium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

It is located toward the north end of the building near the entrance to the peristyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference

It will be readily distinguished by its immense Corinthian atrium, or rather peristyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Through the tablinum the peristyle is seen, with two of its Ionic capitals still remaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Its peristyle is composed of forty-two columns, fifteen on each side and eight on each end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

In the centre of the crypt is a curious baptistery, six feet in diameter, under a peristyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Perhaps part of the peristyle was so badly injured by the Persians that it could not be repaired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

Many objects were found in the peristyle, mostly of the kind usually discovered in Pompeian houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Of the disposition of the garden, which occupied the open part of the peristyle, we have little to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Through the tablinum the pillars of the peristyle and the fountain painted on the garden wall are seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The house is remarkable for its well-preserved peristyle of fourteen Ionic columns, with their capitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

This lower story, therefore, was not under ground, though near eight feet below the level of the peristyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

She was standing upon the gray and black mosaic of the peristyle, dressed in the most charming morning toilette.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In 1759 an earthquake threw down three columns of the great temple and nine of the peristyle of the Temple of the Sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Behind this, in place of a peristyle, is a court or garden, the wall of which is painted with a figure bearing a basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The latter, walking slowly over the peristyle all at once sees Odysseus and recognizes her lord, who folds her to his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

All the most important persons of the town and many strangers were under the peristyle, and now advanced, Cinq-Mars among them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Behind is a peristyle with twelve columns, in the garden of which shrubs are said to have been discovered in a carbonized state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

There is nothing remarkable in the house itself, which contains the usual apartments, atrium, peristyle, etc., except the paintings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

One of these in the middle of the peristyle is square, having in its centre a sort of round table from which the water gushed forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

These pictures, with others illustrative of the various processes of the art, were found upon a pier in the peristyle of the Fullonica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference