Pȳ'no-stȳle, n.

n. [Fr. pycnostyle, Gr. πυκνόστυλος, from πυκνός, close, and στῦλος, a column, pillar.] (Anc. Arch.) A colonnade in which the columns stand very close to each other, only one diameter and a half of the column being allowed to each intercolumniation. Gwilt.