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
The public fancy fastened upon that figure of a smiling woman, "awful pretty, but with something scaring about her," leaning over the baluster to laugh, "I won't hurt him!"
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
Stiffly upstanding on each chief baluster, Absently gaze the historical griffins, Plunged in their silent and deep meditation.
From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by James E. Pickering
The front door opened to a wide hall and stairway, with carved baluster and polished mahogany rail.
From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin
