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

When he last saw her, she was inside the pavilion, leaning over the baluster rail, breast high, protected by it.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

In their place a solitary figure sat on a baluster drinking smoke contemplatively from a pipe of clay.

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

The upper windows of these towers differ little from the Anglo-Saxon, except in that the two lights are separated by a shaft or short column in place of the rounded baluster.

From Cathedral Cities of England by Gilbert, George