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noun

Baluster n. (Corrupted into banister) (Arch.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.

Banister n.

A baluster.

(sing. or pl.) The balustrade of a staircase. Formerly used in this sense mostly in the plural, now mostly in the singular. (Also spelled bannister) "He struggled to ascend the pulpit stairs, holding hard on the banisters. "

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"Banister" Quotes from Famous Books

... a headache, and she would not go out for a walk with him. She heard her father reading the paper aloud, so she went to her room and dropped on the bed again. Her throat began to feel sore and swollen. When she heard the doctor's voice in the hall she leaned over the banister and said: "Dr. Kendricks will you come up ...

— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... orange, looked down from the ceiling. Curtains of tawny velvet hung beside the shuttered windows. A great brazen candelabrum, filled with half-consumed candles, stood tall and splendid at the foot of a wide oak staircase, the banister-rail whereof was cushioned with tawny velvet. Splendour of fabric, wood and marble, colour and gilding, showed on every side; but of ...

— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

... and learning, as all of them did, to become thoroughly domesticated—Emily most of all. Behind the dining-room was a peat-room, which, when Charlotte was married in 1854, was cleared out and converted into a little study for Mr. Nicholls. The staircase with its solid banister remains as it did half a century ago; and at its foot one is still shown the corner which tradition assigns as the scene of Emily's conflict with her dog Keeper. On the right, at the back, as you mount ...

— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

... running steps upstairs. Katherine leaned over the banister. Her quiet voice reassured him. ...

— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp

... the banister Tom Tracy saw Harold when the door was opened, and screaming to his mother at the top of his voice, 'It ain't old Peterkin, mother; it's Hall Hastings, come to the front door,' he ran down the stairs, and confronting the intruder just as he ...

— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes

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