Associations to the word «Pteron»

Wiktionary

PTERON, noun. (architecture) A peristyle raised on a podium, differing from an ordinary peristyle raised only on a stylobate.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope