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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  1. 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
  • 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. —  Victory
  • 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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  1. French, from Italian balaustrata, from balaustro, baluster; see baluster.

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  1. from French balustrade, from Italian balaustrata (= Spanish Portuguese balaustrada), a balustrade, properly adjective feminine, furnished with balusters, from balaustro, a baluster.
 

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/bæləsˈtreɪd/
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