doric column

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doric
adjective
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/ˈdɒr.ɪk/us
/ˈdɔːr.ɪk/
of or copying the simplest of the classical styles of ancient ...
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column
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒl.əm/us
/ˈkɑː.ləm/
one of several vertical blocks of print into which a page of a newspaper or magazine ...
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Thedoriccolumnsymbolises the birth of civilisation.
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Doric columns compliment the entry and the front door is multi-paned and has sidelights.
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Just inside the gate was a building with a portico of doric columns.
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Doric columns, a three-story clock tower with bell, cast roof rises and a classic portico constitute the building's facade.
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The symmetric facade with doric columns and white trim all fit with the style.
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The ground floor is a loggia opened by 21 arches with doric columns.
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Inside the cruciform exterior, the interior sheet of the wooden double cupola is supported by paired doric columns and rounded arches.
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The buildings grand stairway and 32 doric columns were covered from with 6,700 enormous white paper flowers.
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A four-columned portico of doric columns projected from the rusticated severe building and the entirety is only the width of the portico.
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The front (east) facade gained a one-story portico with doric columns.
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The capitals of the doric columns contrasted with the ionic capitals of the antae.
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Four doric columns support a classic pediment, all painted light pink.
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The house was constructed with red brick on a raised foundation featuring a projecting central portico entrance supported with doric columns.
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The garden house is a temple of eight doric columns holding up a domed roof.
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Doric columns frame its entrance, and there is much marble molding.
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Doric columns on the porches on the west front and south end were added in the 1800s.
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It is framed by four doric columns on a pediment.
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The second floor, the piano nobile, is decorated with doric columns.
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Doric columns are almost always cut with grooves, known as fluting, which run the length of the column and are usually 20 in number, although sometimes fewer.
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Four doric columns frame the front portico.
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