Crossword-Solution: PROSTYLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prostyle | a. | Having columns in front. |
| Prostyle | n. | A prostyle portico or building. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PROSTYLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| With portico columns toward the front, in a classical temple | 1 answer |
| AT OR TO OR TOWARD THE FRONT | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
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Sentences with PROSTYLE (5)
Did a vestibule exist at the front only, the temple would be called prostyle; as it is, it is amphiprostyle.
First there is the temple in antis, or [Greek: naos en parastasin] as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral.
The prostyle is in all respects like the temple in antis, except that at the corners, opposite the antae, it has two columns, and that it has architraves not only in front, as in the case of the temple in antis, but also one to the right and one to the left in the wings.
The amphiprostyle is in all other respects like the prostyle, but has besides, in the rear, the same arrangement of columns and pediment.
Afterwards, however, when Demetrius of Phalerum was master of Athens, Philo set up columns in front before the temple, and made it prostyle.
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).