doric

[ US /ˈdɔɹɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or pertaining to the Doric style of architecture
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How To Use doric In A Sentence

  • There's the Parthenon, built in 446 B.C., with its colonnade of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure.
  • Theodoric, and the professions of his successor, in Procopius, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • It is an amphiprostyle tetrastyle Doric temple of poros.
  • Sansovino could have designed a rusticated flat arch for the herms to carry, or even a simple Tuscan entablature without metopes and triglyphs, but instead he chose the Doric.
  • _Eugenia malaccensis_; the santol (santor), _Sandóricum indicum_. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • Despite their creativity - whether in modifying Egyptian and Near Eastern forms, or inventing the Doric and Ionic orders of architecture - Greek artists worked in established genres.
  • A more elaborate Doric capital of white marble, with flutes on the necking, is stored west of the building, to the west of the marble throne in room A.
  • Boethius became magister officiorum under Theodoric in about 520.
  • Let the front of a Doric temple, at the place where the columns are put up, be divided, if it is to be tetrastyle, into twenty-seven parts; if hexastyle, into forty-two. The Ten Books on Architecture
  • In the drawing for the full composition, the personification of architecture holds a model of a structure with Doric columns.
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