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Araeosystyle

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ARAEOSYSTYLE (Gr. dpotis, widely spaced, and ffiiffrvXos, with columns set close together) , an architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation (q.v.) is alternately wide and narrow, as in the case of the western porch of St Paul's cathedral and the east front of the Louvre by Perrault.