banister
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ə noun
1.
a baluster.
2.
Sometimes, banisters. the balustrade of a staircase.
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Word Origin & History
banister
1660s, unexplained corruption of baluster. As late as 1830 condemned as "vulgar," it is now accepted.
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Banister
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example sentences
Still another could slowly make his way up a flight of stairs while hanging onto a banister.
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