baluster

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(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French balustre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian balaustro (“pillar”), from balausta (“wild pomegranate flower”), so named because of resemblance to the swelling form of the half-open flower, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "sem" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Aramaic balatz 'wild pomegranate flower').

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baluster (plural balusters)

(architecture) A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway; a banister.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎^[1]:
  Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 17 (i),
  Nick looked at the floor, and at the rhythm of the black-and-gilt S-shaped balusters.

banister

Armenian: ճաղ (hy) (čaġ)
Catalan: balustre m
Dutch: baluster (nl) m
Finnish: balusteri
French: balustre (fr) f
Georgian: რიკული (ka) (riḳuli)
German: Baluster (de) m
Hungarian: korlátbáb, mellvédbáb, baluszter
Icelandic: rimill m, pílári í handriði m, brjóstriðssúla f, speli m, spæll m
Ido: balustrado (io)
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Italian: balaustra (it)
Polish: tralka (pl) f, balas (pl) m, balaska f
Portuguese: balaústre (pt) m
Romanian: balustru (ro) m
Russian: баля́сина (ru) f (baljásina)
Spanish: balaustre (es) m
Swedish: baluster (sv) c
Ukrainian: баля́сина (uk) f (baljásyna)