Usually means: Enclosed walkway surrounding a building.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (periptery)

noun:  The region surrounding a moving body, such as the wing of a bird or a gliding aeroplane, within which cyclic or vortical motion of the air occurs.
noun:  (architecture) A building surrounded by a wing or row of columns.

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