baluster

After passing through a curtained entryway, you’re greeted by a dazzling textile baluster mounted on a coin-operated pottery wheel, a life-size wax puppeteer with a twitching hand; an array of mythological porcelain and terra-cotta figurines and a towering sculpture of a woman with an animatronic spinning head.

I zip my suitcase slowly, trying to disguise the sound; but even so, I hear a stirring from the living room couch, and then four feet clamoring up the stairs, her tail rhythmically striking the baluster.

They are designed for a baluster style of railing with pickets and can’t be used with all railing types.

Werfel flinched backward, stumbling against a baluster.

Salem said some of the prospective buyers intended to use the townhouses — known collectively as the Baluster, and priced from $2.995 million to $3.695 million — as a second or third home, a place to stay and to entertain when they are in Washington.