octostyle
Adjective. (architecture) A temple or portico with eight columns in front. The Parthenon in Athens is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle. .This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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