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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

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pl.

Propylæa

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[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] before + [GREEK] a gate.]

(Anc. Classical Arch.)

Any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure.

propylaeum ‎(plural propylaea or propylaeums)

A vestibule or entrance to a Greek temple
- Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
  On either side of the road young girls stood with pitchers at the fountains which bubbled there, and behind the houses forming the propylaea of the rock rose the massive forehead of the Isle — crested at this part with its enormous ramparts as with a mural crown.

vestibule or entrance