balustrade
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Felix Page's left side had been toward the balustrade at the instant Fluette snatched up the candle-stick; on the balustrade was a deep indentation where the base of the improvised weapon had impinged, after glancing; and the fatal blow had struck upon the victim's right temple.
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- noun A rail and the row of balusters or posts that support it, as along the front of a gallery.
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- That the balustrade was there to guard an area upon which the basement windows looked out, she was to learn in rather a painful manner. — Ladies' Bane - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 22
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Felix Page's left side had been toward the balustrade at the instant Fluette snatched up the candle-stick; on the balustrade was a deep indentation where the base of the improvised weapon had impinged, after glancing; and the fatal blow had struck upon the victim's right temple.
— The Paternoster Ruby -
The sprite in the centre of the balustrade is the most winsome of the company.
— Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation -
The one with the rug on the balustrade was the most distant; next to it was the empty bungalow; the nearest, with the flower-beds at the foot of its veranda, contained that bothersome girl, who had managed so provokingly to keep herself invisible.
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Felix Page's _left_ side had been toward the balustrade at the instant Fluette snatched up the candle-stick; on the balustrade was a deep indentation where the base of the improvised weapon had impinged, after glancing; and the fatal blow had struck upon the victim's _right_ temple.
— The Paternoster Ruby
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- French, from Italian balaustrata, from balaustro, baluster; see baluster.
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/ (bălˈə-strādˌ)/
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