Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A balustrade or balustrades; balustrade-work.

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Examples

  • The curved fins are glue-laminated pine, plantation poplar has been used for the slats and redwood milled from the site used in the walkway balustrading.

    The Yellow Treehouse Restaurant 2008

  • The building was designed in the Italianate style and featured arch-headed windows, projecting cornices, balustrading, pediments and parapet urns.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hels 2009

  • The building was designed in the Italianate style and featured arch-headed windows, projecting cornices, balustrading, pediments and parapet urns.

    C19th courthouse architecture: rural Victoria Hels 2009

  • For a minute they leant on the balustrading, following the intricate evolution of the dance.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • They stood close together, leaning over the rustic balustrading which bounded the arbour on the outward side, and formed the crest of a steep slope beneath Elfride constrainedly pointed out some features of the distant uplands rising irregularly opposite.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • I had been to luncheon with him that day; yet why I had said all I had about the balustrading costing 380,000 roubles, and about my having several times visited the Prince at that villa (I had never once been there — more especially since the Prince possessed no residences save in Moscow and Naples, as the Nechludoffs very well knew), I could not possibly tell you.

    Youth 2003

  • Prince Ivan Ivanovitch had a villa near Moscow which people came to see even from London and Paris, and that it contained balustrading which had cost 380,000 roubles.

    Youth 2003

  • They came suddenly on the house, which was built of grey pointed stone, its low-angle slate roof hidden behind a high balustrading.

    Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

  • For a minute they leant on the balustrading, following the intricate evolution of the dance.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 1906

  • Twelve or fifteen steps carried him into a court-yard, oblong north and south, and in every quarter, except the east, bounded by what seemed the fronts of two-storey houses; of which the lower floor was divided into lewens, while the upper was terraced and defended by strong balustrading.

    Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901

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