# Looking for a specific word

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 1, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-word/805684 "2018-01-01T11:14:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-word/805684/21 "2018-01-02T06:40:41Z")

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IKR?

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-word/805684/22 "2018-01-03T05:33:30Z")

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Vomitorium.

The nearby football stadium has a couple of these.  
I’ve always wanted to design a house with one, just to use it in conversation…

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-word/805684/23 "2018-01-03T15:22:50Z")

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[Analemmata](https://www.whitman.edu/theatre/theatretour/glossary/glossary%20images/analemmata.jpg)?  
[Proskenion](https://www.whitman.edu/theatre/theatretour/glossary/glossary%20images/proskenion.jpg) or [hyposkenion](https://www.whitman.edu/theatre/theatretour/glossary/glossary%20images/hyposkenion.jpg), with skene being the shorter general term?

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-word/805684/24 "2018-01-03T18:47:00Z")

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Here is a [Mini-Dictionary of Garden Structures and Plant Forms](http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ep432) which doesn’t include anything that meets your criteria.

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-word/805684/25 "2018-01-03T19:04:25Z")

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> [@Iggy](#):
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> a **peristyle** perhaps?

That was my first thought. A peristylium/peristyle or a hypostyle.

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**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-word/805684/26 "2018-03-01T20:27:35Z")

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I’m sorry I haven’t replied earlier, but I now think that tetrapylon was probably it.

Many thanks to all who joined in!

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