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plural balusters
(architecture) A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway; a banister. quotations examples
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus
Nick looked at the floor, and at the rhythm of the black-and-gilt S-shaped balusters.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing