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 A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

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

It took her a long time to go upstairs; her head whirled, and if she had not clung to the baluster she would have fallen.

From Amabel Channice by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas