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balustered en · ADJ

Etymology

From baluster + -ed. Influnenced by Italian balaustrato or French balustrée.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) 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 exquisitely polish’d: 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: