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
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 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 George Gilbert
“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 Walter Prichard Eaton
