baluster

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Different types of baluster

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Etymology

(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 159: 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 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value sem is not valid. See WT:LOL. (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Aramaic balatz 'wild pomegranate flower').

Pronunciation

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Noun

baluster (plural balusters)

  1. (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.

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