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

I stopped a moment to take breath; then I ascended in the dark, my hand on the baluster.

From The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian

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

Along three sides ran a verandah gallery, raised a step or two above the pavement, with a baluster and railing between.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne