What is another word for balustrade?

Pronunciation: [bˈaləstɹˌe͡ɪd] (IPA)

Balustrade is a common architectural feature that adds elegance and functionality to buildings and outdoor spaces. Sometimes it can be challenging to describe balustrades accurately using one word or phrase. This is where synonyms come in handy. Balustrade synonyms include banister, railings, handrail, parapet, and fence. Banister is a widely used term that refers to a handrail, while railings can be used interchangeably with balustrades. Handrail is another synonym used to describe the structure that runs along a flight of stairs. A parapet can also be used to refer to a low wall-like structure that prevents people from falling over the edge of a building or roof. Finally, fence describes a structure that encloses an area or property and can be made using balustrades.

Synonyms for Balustrade:

What are the hypernyms for Balustrade?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Balustrade

Acton leaned upon the veranda balustrade, with a particularly rank cigar in his hand, a gaunt, big-boned man in badly-fitting clothes.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Then he became interested as a girl stepped out of one of the lighted windows some little distance away, and, without noticing him, leaned upon the veranda balustrade.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
The girl who leaned on the balustrade no doubt saw him, and she walked towards Nasmyth, whom, apparently, she had now seen for the first time.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton

Famous quotes with Balustrade

  • Mrs. Burgoyne passed the last twenty years of her life in a large, solemn-looking house at Kensington ; it is now a mad-house. How curiously do these changes in dwelling places, once cheerful and familiar, bring the mutability of our existence home ! It would be an eventful chronicle, the history of even a few of the old-fashioned houses in the vicinity of London. You ascended a flight of steps, with a balustrade and two indescribable birds on either side, and a large hall, which, strange to say, was more cheerful in winter than in summer. In summer the narrow windows, the black wood with which it was panelled, seemed heavy and dull ; but in winter the huge fire gave its own gladness, and had besides the association with old English hospitality which a blazing grate always brings. You passed next through two long drawing-rooms, whose white wainscoting was almost covered with family portraits. There cannot be much said for the taste of Queen Anne's time downwards — bagged, wigged, and hooped ; there was not a picture of which the African's question might not have been asked, "Pray tell me, white woman, if this is all you?”
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Related words: metal railing, bar railing, horizontal railing, wrought iron railing, steel railing, balusters, metal railings

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