baluster
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From Middle French balustre, from Italian balaustro (“pillar”), from balausta (“wild pomegranate flower”), so named because of resemblance to the swelling form of the half-open flower, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion), from Semitic (compare Aramaic balatz (“wild pomegranate flower”)). Doublet of banister.
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baluster (plural balusters)
- (architecture) A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway; a banister. [from 17th c.]
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Nick looked at the floor, and at the rhythm of the black-and-gilt S-shaped balusters.
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- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Baluster”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 644, column 3.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French balustre, from Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion).
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baluster c (singular definite balusteren, plural indefinite balustere)
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Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | baluster | balusteren | balustere | balusterne |
genitive | balusters | balusterens | balusteres | balusternes |
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French balustre, from Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion).
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baluster m (plural balusters, diminutive balustertje n)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French balustre, from Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion).
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baluster c
- (architecture) a baluster (a short column used in a group to support a rail)
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Singular | Plural | |||
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Nominative | baluster | balustern | balustrar | balustrarna |
Genitive | balusters | balusterns | balustrars | balustrarnas |