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Recent Examples of balustrade
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.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2025
Head upstairs via the marble staircase with a bronze balustrade (or the elevator).
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2025
We are ushered into a huge room that is decorated to resemble a residential square in Calcutta, with laundry hanging over the balustrades.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2025
The antebellum-style home at the corner of Bay and Bates streets was completed in 1911 and features a deep front porch that extends around much of one side, a balustrade widow’s walk and a double-columned, pediment two-story entry.
—Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2024
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2025
Head upstairs via the marble staircase with a bronze balustrade (or the elevator).
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2025
We are ushered into a huge room that is decorated to resemble a residential square in Calcutta, with laundry hanging over the balustrades.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2025
The antebellum-style home at the corner of Bay and Bates streets was completed in 1911 and features a deep front porch that extends around much of one side, a balustrade widow’s walk and a double-columned, pediment two-story entry.
—Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for balustrade
Noun
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Police said some commuters leaped over the railing while others were crushed or fell underfoot and were trampled.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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At first, Souper, whose real name is Hugo, tries to push Jeff over the railing at the top of a tall flight of stairs.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
1 June 2025
Noun
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The largest high-speed rail project in the country has released new images of its progress on infrastructure in Central Valley in California.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fires them from portable rails or from racks on trucks, and the small pulse rocket on the bottom of each drone slams it to cruise speed before falling off.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
16 June 2025
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“Balustrade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/balustrade. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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