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/bˈænəstər/ /bˈænɪstər/ Listen

noun

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. "

bannister n. Same as banister.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bannister" Quotes from Famous Books

... Denison, clean-shirted and looking eminently respectable and prosperous, and feeling once more a man after the degrading duck episode in North Queensland, was strolling about George Street with Bannister, and at peace with the world and himself. For the skipper's wife had been impressed with his intellectuality and modest demeanour, and was already at work decorating his cabin—as ...

— By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories • Louis Becke

... with Sheridan! In at the play-house just at six he pops, And never quits it till the curtain drops, Is never absent on the author's night, Knows actresses and actors too—by sight; So humble, that with Suett he'll confer, Or take a pipe with plain Jack Bannister; Nay, with an author has been known so free, He once suggested a catastrophe— In short, John dabbled till his head was turn'd; His wife remonstrated, his neighbours mourn'd, His customers were dropping off apace, And Jack's affairs began ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas

... 'Where have you been, Bannister, where have you been? You must not leave your work in this way. There are several letters waiting to be entered. ...

— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse

... of old Roman baths such as one sees in the Lateran Museum, in Rome. (See picture in Bannister Fletcher's History ...

— Palaces and Courts of the Exposition • Juliet James

... justified o' her children; an' any other man than me wad ha' made the indent eight hunder. Hay was our skipper—ye'll have met him. They shifted him to the Torgau, an' bade me wait for the Breslau under young Bannister. Ye'll obsairve there'd been a new election on the Board. I heard the shares were sellin' hither an' yon, an' the major part of the Board was new to me. The old Board would ne'er ha' done it. They trusted me. But the new Board were all for reorganisation. Young Steiner—Steiner's ...

— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling

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