| 单词 | balustrade |
| 释义 | Related topics: Buildingsbal·us·trade /ˌbæləˈstreɪd $ ˈbæləstreɪd/ noun [countable] TBBa row of wooden, stone, or metal posts that stop someone falling from a bridge or balcony 〔桥或阳台的〕扶手，栏杆Examples from the Corpusbalustrade• This one has Ionic columns and a balustrade, and the speaker's gallery seems to have been right.• He describes a balcony with a balustrade of crumbling stucco, on which sits a struggling jade plant in an earthenware pot.• Once a Doge's palace, ornate stairways, gothic arches and balustrades remain.• Brownstones, balustrades, bay windows, wrought-iron.• In 1893 he bought Cliveden House, to which he added the entire balustrade of the Villa Borghese.• Rimmed by a waist-high balustrade, the garden sheers down some twenty feet.• All four stood just behind the balustrade.• She walked to the edge of the terrace and leaned on the balustrade, looking out over Florence.Origin balustrade (1600-1700) French Italian balaustrata, from balaustro “post supporting a handrail”, from balaustra “pomegranate flower”; because of the shape of the postbal·us·trade nounChineseSyllable or of stone, metal Corpus posts row a wooden, |
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