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
She went upstairs, pulling herself up each step by the baluster.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
Down they came hand in hand, little Phil holding tightly to the polished baluster, chattering as they went, like two wood-thrushes.
From In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series by Susan Coolidge
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 Walter Crum Watson
