1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Eustyle

EUSTYLE (from Gr. εὖ, well, and στῦλος, column), the architectural term for the intercolumniation defined by Vitruvius (iii. 3) as being of the best proportion, i.e. two and a half diameters (see Intercolumniation).

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