Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EP'I-STYLE
E-PIS'TRO-PHE, or E-PIS'TRO-PHYEP'I-TAPH
EP'I-STYLE, n. [Gr. επι and στυλος, a column.]
In ancient architecture, a term used by the Greeks for what is now called the architrave, a massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar. Encyc.
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