peristyle

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It’s a shallow basin on the western edge of downtown, framed by concrete structures called pergolas and peristyles that were built by the Works Progress Administration.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2013

For the other apartments, that is, those intended to be used in Spring, Autumn, and Summer, as well as for atriums and peristyles, the ancients required realistic pictures of real things.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Here and there were strange ruins of marble and red granite—columns, peristyles, benches carved with lions' heads, and pedestals.

From David and the Phoenix by Raysor, Joan

Lesbos was then a stretch of green gardens and white peristyles set beneath a purple dome.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

From the second bath they stroll into one of the peristyles, to hear some new poet recite: or into the library, to sleep over an old one.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron