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noun
- 1. a short decorative pillar forming part of a series supporting a rail or coping.
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1. : an object or vertical member (such as the leg of a table, a round in a chair back, or the stem of a glass) having a vaselike or turned outline. 2. : an upright often vase-shaped support for a rail. Examples of baluster in a Sentence.
noun. 1. Architecture. any of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing. 2. See balusters. 3. any of various symmetrical supports, as furniture legs or spindles, tending to swell toward the bottom or top. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
Baluster definition: any of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing.. See examples of BALUSTER used in a sentence.
A baluster is a spindle or pillar in the railing of a stairway. Many balusters together make up a balustrade. The rungs in a staircase that you tap your fingers against as you descend are each called a baluster.
Baluster. Appearance. Illustration of various examples of balusters, in A Handbook of Ornament, by Franz S. Meyer. The term derives from the swelling form of the half-open flower of Punica granatum, in Italian balaustra.
1. a. One of the upright, usually rounded or vase-shaped supports of a balustrade. b. An upright support, such as a furniture leg, having a similar shape. 2. One of the supporting posts of a handrail.
Baluster Definition. One of the upright, usually rounded or vase-shaped supports of a balustrade. Any of the small posts that support the handrail of a railing, as on a staircase. An upright support, such as a furniture leg, having a similar shape. One of the supporting posts of a handrail.
Definition of baluster noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. any of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing. 2. balusters, a balustrade. 3. any of various symmetrical supports, as furniture legs or spindles, tending to swell toward the bottom or top.
At the deck, a baluster similar to those on the steps up to the porch connects the pillars. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
