Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PYC'NO-STYLE
PYC'NO-STYLE, n. [Gr. πυκνος, thick, and στυλος, column.]
In ancient architecture, a building where the columns stand very close to each other; only one diameter and a half of the column being allowed to each intercolumniation. – Encyc.
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