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noun

Baluster n. (Corrupted into banister) (Arch.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.

Banister n.

A baluster.

(sing. or pl.) The balustrade of a staircase. Formerly used in this sense mostly in the plural, now mostly in the singular. (Also spelled bannister) "He struggled to ascend the pulpit stairs, holding hard on the banisters. "

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Banister" Quotes from Famous Books

... to have but little in it; now and then he knocked against a chest or a box, and stumbled over other articles, till suddenly he nearly fell head foremost down a stair. "This must lead somewhere, at all events," he thought; and by a banister which he discovered on one side he began cautiously to descend, feeling with one foot before he lifted up the other. Down and down he went till he got into a passage between some stone walls. "Come, perhaps this will ...

— Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin • William H. G. Kingston

... the passage at sliding down the banisters. Having regard to its value in soothing the nerves and stimulating the liver, and to the fact that it is an indoor pastime within the reach of high and low, I never understand why banister-sliding has not become more popular. I should imagine that it would be an uproariously successful innovation at any smart country house, during the long evenings, and the first hostess who has the courage to introduce it will undoubtedly reap ...

— Nights in London • Thomas Burke

... old battered hat from a nail on which it hung, and with feeble step left the room, grasping the banister to steady his steps as he ...

— Tom, The Bootblack - or, The Road to Success • Horatio Alger

... had passed since the close of the Revolutionary war, and almost seventy years had seen Mrs. Jemison with the Indians, when Daniel W. Banister, Esq. at the instance of several gentlemen, and prompted by his own ambition to add something to the accumulating fund of useful knowledge, resolved, in the autumn of 1823, to embrace that time, while she was ...

— A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison • James E. Seaver

... outside the door. I suspected that Madame was listening. I waited for a time, expecting to see the door open, but she did not come; so I opened it suddenly myself, but Madame was not on the threshold nor on the lobby. I heard a rustling, however, and on the staircase over the banister I saw the folds of her silk ...

— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

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