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Baluster

noun
(Corrupted into banister)
1.
One of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing.



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"Baluster" Quotes from Famous Books



... its tall responds. Outside there are all the unmistakable features of Saxon work—the ponderously thick walls, becoming thinner in the upper parts, the "long and short" method of arranging the coigning, and the double windows divided with a heavy baluster as at Wharram-le-Street in Yorkshire, Earl's Barton in ...
— Beautiful Britain—Cambridge • Gordon Home
 
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... wainscoting in alternating vertical and horizontal panels. The stairway rises from about the middle of the hall in easy steps to the second floor, the spindles are rather primitive and the entire stairway has a provincial air. The white baluster rail is matched by a handrail and supported by half a matching newel post; wherever the cornice breaks, it turns against itself. An amusing feature, one found sometimes in old houses, is an inside window opening from the back drawing room ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore
 
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... any considerable possessions or owning good household furnishings had a few silver spoons; nearly every person owned at least one. At the time America was settled the common form of silver spoon in England had what was known as a baluster stem and a seal head; the assay mark was in the inner part of the bowl. But the fashion was just changing, and a new and much altered form was introduced which was made in large numbers until the opening reign of George I. This shape was the very one without doubt in which ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle
 
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... the wall the man guided himself toward the stairs at the end of the hall. On the first step he stumbled and would have fallen had it not been for a quick footman. The man recovered his balance and struck viciously at the servant. Then he clutched the baluster, and stumbled his ...
— Through stained glass • George Agnew Chamberlain
 
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Words linked to "Baluster" :   balusters, support, banister, bannister, handrail, balustrade



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