Definition for EU'STYLE

EU'STYLE, n. [Gr. ευ and στυλος, a column.]

In architecture, a sort of building in which the columns are placed at the most convenient distances from each other, the intercolumniations being just two diameters and a quarter of the column, except those in the middle of the face, before and behind, which are three diameters distant. Encyc.

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