balustered
balustered adjective: having one or more balusters.
Adjective
balustered (not comparable)
- Having one or more balusters.
- The Court below is formd into a Squar by a Corridor, having over the chiefe Entrance a stately Cupola cover’d with stone, the rest is cloysterd & arch’d on Pillasters of rustique-worke; The Tarace ascending before the Front, pav’d with white & black marble is balustred about with white marble...1644, John Evelyn, edited by Esmond Samuel De Beer, The diary of John Evelyn, volume 2, IRL Press at Oxford University Press, published 2003, page 129
Origin of balustered
From baluster + -ed. Influnenced by Italian balaustrato or French balustrée.
Questions about balustered
- What does balustered mean?
- Balustered means having one or more balusters.
- What part of speech is balustered?
- Balustered is an adjective.
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