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a long porch or portico used for exercise, usually during bad weather; a garden; a portico
1876Daniel DerondaThen, this, where she is standing on the Xystus with Agrippa, entreating the people not to injure themselves by resistance.1897The Economist...the xystus, 'a covered corrider in the gymnasium where the athletes exercised in winter.'1901Ben HurBut go up to Jerusalem next Passover, and stand on the Xystus or in the Street of Barter, and see him as he is.1919Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) a NovelThe xystus, or garden, adjoining the house had been laid out like a Grecian landscape with cypresses and laurels between squares of roses and violets.Labels: George Eliot, Lew Wallace, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Xenophon
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