BALUSTRADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does balustrade mean? 

• BALUSTRADE (noun)
  The noun BALUSTRADE has 1 sense:

1. a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

  Familiarity information: BALUSTRADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALUSTRADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

balusters; balustrade; banister; bannister; handrail

Hypernyms ("balustrade" is a kind of...):

barrier (a structure or object that impedes free movement)

Meronyms (parts of "balustrade"):

baluster (one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing)

rail; railing (a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports)

Holonyms ("balustrade" is a part of...):

balcony (a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet)

 Context examples 

We all went together, she before us: and a glorious old room it was, with more oak beams, and diamond panes; and the broad balustrade going all the way up to it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The hall lamp was now lit, and it amused her to look over the balustrade and watch the servants passing backwards and forwards.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The famous Master of the Ring was clad in honour of the occasion in a most resplendent scarlet coat worked in gold at the buttonholes, a white stock, a looped hat with a broad black band, buff knee-breeches, white silk stockings, and paste buckles—a costume which did justice to his magnificent figure, and especially to those famous balustrade calves which had helped him to be the finest runner and jumper as well as the most formidable pugilist in England.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Roses covered the walls of the house, draped the cornices, climbed the pillars, and ran riot over the balustrade of the wide terrace, whence one looked down on the sunny Mediterranean, and the white-walled city on its shore.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was a broad panelled staircase, with massive balustrades of some dark wood; cornices above the doors, ornamented with carved fruit and flowers; and broad seats in the windows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Not so bad as it seems, for I should only plague him if I went, so I might as well stay and plague you a little longer, you can bear it better, in fact I think it agrees with you excellently, and Laurie composed himself for a lounge on the broad ledge of the balustrade.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A fair hand was stretched forth to me from the window; and the face I had never seen without a feeling of serenity and happiness, from the moment when it first turned back on the old oak staircase with the great broad balustrade, and when I associated its softened beauty with the stained-glass window in the church, was smiling on me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We accordingly went up a wonderful old staircase; with a balustrade so broad that we might have gone up that, almost as easily; and into a shady old drawing-room, lighted by some three or four of the quaint windows I had looked up at from the street: which had old oak seats in them, that seemed to have come of the same trees as the shining oak floor, and the great beams in the ceiling.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I forget, too, at what hour the gates were opened in the morning, admitting of my going in; but I know that I was often up at six o'clock, and that my favourite lounging-place in the interval was old London Bridge, where I was wont to sit in one of the stone recesses, watching the people going by, or to look over the balustrades at the sun shining in the water, and lighting up the golden flame on the top of the Monument.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)