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

“This hall the same colour,” said I, “with the rails of the baluster in the cream white of the trim.”

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard

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

His hand came in contact with the baluster, and he quickly ascended the rickety stairs.

From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Bentley, Charles S.