Dictionary entry

Pseudo-peripteral

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pseu′do–pe‐rip″ter‐al (?), a. [Pseudo- + peripteral: cf. F. pseudopériptère.] (Arch.) Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. — n. A pseudo-peripteral temple. Oxf. Gloss.