newel
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Among the artefacts found in the house are two angels, carved from oak, which once stood as newel posts at the foot of the house's main stairway.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2024
One luxuriated on a fluffy bedspread by a picture window overlooking Manhattan; another perched on a banister newel post, master of his empty household.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022
She paints portraits of people’s homes, focusing on one modest detail — a doorstop, a newel post or the fringed trim of a curtain.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022
It has pine floors, large windows, period trim and stairs with a carved wooden newel post.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2018
Each step was set on a center newel, and the steps fanned out from it.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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