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The Pillars of the Earth vocabulary
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balustrade
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Definition:a row of balusters, as what support a bridge or stair railing
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Finding a free place, Levin leaned over the balustrade and began looking and listening.
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Mrs. Fitz, who must have organized this part of the proceedings, leaned precariously across the balustrade,
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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[The Cagots] were obliged to wear both gloves and shoes when they were thus put to flight, otherwise the stones and herbage they trod upon and the balustrades of the bridges that they handled in crossing, would, according to popular belief, have become poisonous.
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A square balustraded gallery ran round the top of the old hall, approached by a double stair.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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