Pteron

 ( Colonnades ) 

In Classical architecture, a pteron (, 'wing') is an external colonnade around a building, especially an Ancient Greek temple.Lawrence, A. W., Greek Architecture, p. xxxi, 1957, Penguin, Pelican history of art; FHP, 254 The pteroma or peristasis is the passage between the columns and the wall in a temple,FHP, 254 the peristyle that in an inward-facing courtyard or garden.FHP, 240

• "FHP": John Fleming, Hugh Honour and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, 3rd edn, 1980, Penguin, ISBN 0140510133