/stuy"leuh bayt'/ , n. Archit. (in a classical temple)
a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, esp. the outermost colonnade.
[ 1555-65; stylobates, stylobata stylobátes, equiv. to stylo- STYLO- 2 + -bates ( ba- (base of baínein to step) + -tes agent suffix) ]