baluster
Example Sentences
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They are designed for a baluster style of railing with pickets and can’t be used with all railing types.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
One stair baluster is still broken; its loose base has scratched the floor, and its paint is chipped and old.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2010
Among other popular andiron designs of this period were the twisted flame, the urn topped, the queer iron and brass dogs with claw feet, the colonial baluster, and the steeple topped.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.
The highest, the one on the west side, has a Corinthian capital and is enriched in front by a statue under a canopy standing on a corbel upheld by a slender baluster shaft.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
Presently their faces showed over the baluster rail, and another step brought them upon the roof.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne
