balustrade
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A plush, red velvet fauteuil tucked into the lower right corner of the picture is like an upscale launching pad, which has propelled the man to the balustrade along a tall French window.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
"During the refit the historic atrium balustrade will be removed and restored off site and reinforced with metal to meet current standards."
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2023
The company was filming the balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet” on the Wave Hill estate in the Bronx, where lush gardens and a rustic stone balustrade offered a graceful site.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
For Casaus, this often involves stacking visually distinct levels of, say, prickly cactuses and wispy flowering bushes, or branchy ornamental trees and soft grasses, against a balustrade or facade.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
There’s too much ornate woodwork here, and the precious layerings of molding and mullion and balustrade and apse, all those thousands of genteel decisions, the studied cuts, just unsettle me.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Steel balustrades from an old staircase found in the basement were repurposed as legs for apartments' bathroom sinks.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Their furniture, with dynamic diagonal supports and imposing scale, had “the presence of small buildings, complete with gables, balustrades, capitals, columns and doors,” Ms. Veith and Ms. Harvey write.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
These fancy and fanciful houses are what can happen when you go nutso with a jigsaw: wooden gingerbread and curlicues and scrollwork and turned balustrades galore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2021
A comparable warmth and crispness distinguish Milagros Ponce de León’s set, featuring elegant stair balustrades evoking an ocean liner — Henrietta sails on one — with the observatory office nestled beneath.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2020
To climb the rocky hills at the peak of which our neighbors’ porches rose even higher, their balustrades festooned with potted plants, the zinc overhangs sparkling in the midday sun.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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