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BALUSTRADE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 297 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALUSTRADE  , a

parapet or low screen consisting of a coping or
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rail supported on balusters (q.v.) . Sometimes it is employed purely as a decorative feature beneath the sill of a window which was not carried down to. the ground . Sometimes flowing foliage takes the place of the parapet, and sometimes so-called balustrades are formed of vertical slabs of stone, pierced as in the Ca' d'oro at Venice and the balconies of the minarets at Cairo .

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