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 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

At the end of the stairs there was a banana-tree, whose wide leaves fell down over the velvet of the baluster.

From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave