Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A'RE-O-STYLE
A'RE-O-STYLE, n. [Gr. αραοις, wide, and στυλος, a column.]
A modern manner of arranging intercolumniations, which consists in placing columns in pairs, and throwing two intercolumniations into one. – Elmes.
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