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balustrade

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balustrade
an ornamental rail or coping with its supporting set of balusters

balustrade [′bal·ə‚strād]
(building construction)
The railing assembly of a stairway consisting of the handrail, balusters, and usually a bottom rail.


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Here the Emperor sent his minister for Li Po, and here the great lyrist set her mortal beauty to glow from the scented, flower-haunted balustrade immortally through the twilights yet to come.
The galleries were full of fashionably dressed ladies, leaning over the balustrade and trying not to lose a single word of what was being said below.
A flight of red freestone steps, fenced in by a balustrade of curiously wrought iron, ascends from the court-yard to the spacious porch, over which is a balcony, with an iron balustrade of similar pattern and workmanship to that beneath.
 
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