apteral
apteral.
1. Adjective describing a Classical temple with a portico at one or both ends, with no flanking colonnades.
2. Said of a church without aisles, and especially of a liturgical west front with a gabled roof and no lean-to aisle-walls sloping to meet the nave.
1. Adjective describing a Classical temple with a portico at one or both ends, with no flanking colonnades.
2. Said of a church without aisles, and especially of a liturgical west front with a gabled roof and no lean-to aisle-walls sloping to meet the nave.
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