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- noun Plural form of
banister .
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Examples
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They are marble, and so wide! and the banisters are the most elegant variegated marble, — a sort of dark brown, and they are _so_ broad!
Gypsy's Cousin Joy Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1877
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Ironworkers from Poland made the banisters and railings.
A Private Retreat In the Suburbs Sarah Tilton 2011
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Perhaps Kafka's staircases lead elsewhere, but they are there, and we look at them, step by step, following the detail of the banisters and the risers.
Translated Texts 2010
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For the banisters and balustrades, Garnier gave full vent to his love of rare stone in combination—pink granite, pink marble, onyx, scagliola and superb mosaic designs on the floors.
Architecture as Allegory Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Though some of the things they did and thought would be regarded even today as strange or worse - Swinburne liked to get drunk, fling off his clothes and slide down banisters, while Burton was sexually ravenous to a degree most people could not comprehend - they did help lead the way out of Victorian repression.
Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels 2011
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The soundtrack of our lives was the rattle of the wooden spoon on the banisters in the mornings to wake us, and the bells of the Angelus at noon and six in the evening.
three for the christmas James Claffey 2011
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They count off the floors, tugging on the banisters and swinging around the corners.
The Lactic Acid Skyscraper Test Joshua Robinson 2011
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The carved banisters of the majestic oak stairway brought in by the former owner from a castle in Northern France were stripped, but preserved.
Venet: A French Artist and His Domain Lanie Goodman 2011
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Then a man, carrying a rifle jumped over the banisters of the 73rd floor and landed with a thud right in front of me.
Blonde, Black and Blood Red nathreee 2010
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Though some of the things they did and thought would be regarded even today as strange or worse - Swinburne liked to get drunk, fling off his clothes and slide down banisters, while Burton was sexually ravenous to a degree most people could not comprehend - they did help lead the way out of Victorian repression.
Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels 2011
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