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balustrades

[bal-uh-streyd, bal-uh-streyd]

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noun Architecture.

a railing with supporting balusters.

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Origin:
1635–45; < French balustre baluster + -ade -ade¹; compare Spanish balaustrada, Italian balaustrata

Related forms

bal·us·trad·ed, adjective

Can be confused: baluster, balustrade, banister.

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Word Origin & History

balustrade

1640s, "row of balusters," from Fr. balustrade (17c.), from It. balaustrata "provided with balusters," from balaustro "pillar" (see baluster)

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"I am sure I do not know why the beauty of Monte Carlo should not satisfy more than it does. The bluest of all seas is nowhere bluer than when you see it between the marble balustrades of the long white terrace before the casino, palms are nowhere greener than in that high garden which the mountain screen from every unkind breath, no colours could be more rich and various than those of the red and purple Alps that tower up behind the town, on whose summit such violent thunderstorms gather and break. But for me, at least, there was not at all the pleasure I had anticipated in this dazzling white and blue, these feathery palms and ragged Alps. ...I had a continual restless feeling that there was nothing at all real about Monte Carlo; that the sea was too blue to be wet, the casino too white to be anything but pasteboard, and that from their very greenness the palms must be cotton. ... in atmosphere and spirit the entire kingdom of Monaco is an extension of the casino."

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