In classical architecture, a building or portico with ten columns across the front.
From Greek 'deca' (ten) + 'stylos' (column), used in architectural terminology to classify temples and classical buildings by the number of columns on their facade.
Ancient Greeks were obsessed with mathematical harmony in buildings, and they classified temples like a biological taxonomy—a decastylos with its ten columns created perfect proportions that the human eye found beautiful without understanding why!
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