A building, especially a temple or portico, having seven columns across its front.
From Greek 'heptastylos'—'hepta' (seven) + 'stylos' (column)—a direct transliteration describing a structure with seven columns.
This Greek term preserves how ancient architects specifically named buildings by their column count—it's architectural vocabulary frozen in time!
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