What is another word for balustrades?

Pronunciation: [bˈaləstɹˌe͡ɪdz] (IPA)

Balustrades are architectural features that have been used in construction for centuries. They are ornamental railings or barriers that are supported by balusters, which are vertical posts or columns. Balustrades are typically made of wood, stone, or metal and are used for aesthetic and safety purposes. If you are looking for synonyms for balustrades, you can use terms such as railings, banisters, handrails, or guardrails. These words all describe similar structures that are used to provide support and safety in buildings. Regardless of the term used, balustrades are an important part of many buildings and are often chosen for their aesthetic appeal as well as their practical function.

What are the hypernyms for Balustrades?

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

Usage examples for Balustrades

And close to them, not a hundred steps from where they sat in the shade of the limes, there rose the wooded slopes and mighty tree-tops of an ancestral park, from the interior of which they caught the gleam of pillars, bridges, and white, vine-clad balustrades.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
The market was crowded with a throng of holiday-makers, a garden of bright colours and from the balconies above richly dressed ladies looked down, themselves a pageant of beauty, with their wonderful golden hair and gleaming jewels, while green and crimson parrots, fastened by golden chains to the marble balustrades, screamed and flapped their wings, and delighted Carpaccio's keen eyes with their vivid beauty.
"Knights of Art Stories of the Italian Painters"
Amy Steedman
There were banqueting halls with marble balustrades just like their own Venetian palaces.
"Knights of Art Stories of the Italian Painters"
Amy Steedman

Famous quotes with Balustrades

  • 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.
    Willa Cather

Related words: iron balustrades, wrought iron balustrades, ornamental balustrades, wrought iron balustrade, decorative balustrades, glass balustrades, wrought iron railing

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