peristyle
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See also: péristyle
English
Etymology
From French péristyle, from Classical Latin peristȳlum, from περίστυλον (perístulon), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”).
Pronunciation
Noun
peristyle (plural peristyles)
- A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc., or the yard enclosed by such columns.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 143:
- 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.
- 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.
- 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 47:
- The peristyle is a roofed structure, open at the sides, in which most of the ceremonials and dances take place.
- 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 35:
- Most peristyles in Haiti have hard-packed dirt floors that can soak up libations when they're poured on the ground in honor of the spirits.
Translations
a courtyard; the space surrounded by a colonnade
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a porch surrounded by columns
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