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  • noun Plural form of bannister.

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Examples

  • But except for that sort of thing that always has to be done, even the floor in the piazza and the bannisters are the original wood.

    Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1975

  • All the floorboards, bannisters and doors were missing, the electricity, gas and water pipes were all gone, the ceilings had collapsed and there were two gaping holes in the roof.

    Life in a Victorian terrace 2011

  • A toilet seat that is regularly cleaned has far less germs on it than the bannisters in a staircase, for example, which are being touched all day long by everyone's hands and which are not cleaned as often as the toilet.

    Dirty things nathreee 2009

  • She was at the head of the stairs, kneeling and peeping through the bannisters like a child.

    Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

  • I have a feeling from a half remembered lecture from a zillion years ago, that Rossetti used to slide naked down the bannisters, and kept a menagerie in his house.

    Desperate Romantics annawaits 2009

  • Jane, think it's Byron that you're thinking of - he had a house full of wild animals and slid down the bannisters.

    Desperate Romantics annawaits 2009

  • It was difficult but I was too tall to use both bannisters to swing my legs up or drag them, and I didn't want to do the bump-bump-bump, one step at a time thing.

    Hawaiian Adventure Day 8: Akaka falls, woodwork and the best breakfast in the USA Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • Still steadily reposing against the bannisters, he worked hard at refining his paragraph, persuaded, since not summoned by Miss Margland, he had bestowed upon it but a few minutes, though he had been fixed to that spot near an hour.

    Camilla 2008

  • Wood bannisters and staircases, rooms with curved windows, doorknobs that were made out of glass.

    August 2006 2006

  • "I pray that in those quiet times God will give you peace to know that Joey is walking on those streets of gold, looking over the bannisters of heaven watching you and your children, smiling as the proud husband and father he was."

    October 2006 glimpses 2006

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