left hand, with the thumb placed through the hole. Pentastyle. Having five columns in front. Periphery. The circumference of a circle,ellipsis, parabola, or other regular curvilinearfigure. Perforated Scroll. Used in Elizabethan … architecture. Pentapastos. a machine mentioned by Vi-trivius, which was used to raise great weights, suchas stones, to a certain height in building. Peristyle. A range of columns within a courtor building, as the internal colonnade of an hypge-thral temple. One of the courts of the Romanvillas,…
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