as in railing
a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports an ornately carved balustrade for the staircase

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Recent Examples of balustrade The iconic hotel, with its Belle Époque balustrades and twin cupola domes, its combination of old world elegance and over-the-top extravagance, is a manifestation — in limestone, stucco and pink marble — of the Cannes festival brand. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025 The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places. Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2025 Ramon Portelli for Studio NiCHE The comparatively large 10-sq-m (107-sq-ft) outdoor terrace features a bespoke limestone planter in place of a traditional balustrade. New Atlas, 11 Apr. 2025 The addition neither aspires to novelty nor imitates great age, being free of balustrades, pilasters, dentil cornices, and all the other surface frosting that Beaux-Arts architects considered indispensable. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for balustrade
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Noun
  • Thursday's incident comes after another cruise passenger on Icon of the Seas fell over the glass railing of an infinity pool last month.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Deputies reported that the man forced his way onto the balcony and climbed over the railing before his fatal fall.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Expect more fintechs to pursue multi-jurisdiction footprints that pair instant rails with direct or quasi-direct settlement access.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Marchenko, a resident of the southwest Siberian city of Kemerovo and a former accountant for the Russian state road and rail service, had flown into the country on July 15 to celebrate her daughter’s birthday and spend time with her family living in Sheepshead Bay.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025

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“Balustrade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/balustrade. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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