a. and sb. Arch. [a. F. aréosystyle (Perrault, 1673), f. Gr. ἀραιός rare, few + σύστυλος (Vitruvius) with columns close together: see SYSTYLE.] (See quot. and cf. prec.)
1834. Penny Cycl., II. 233. Aræosystyle … an alternately very wide and very narrow intercolumniation, or, what is familiarly called coupled columns.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Aræosystyle … in the principal façade of the Louvre … in the west front of St. Paul’s.
