What is "balustrades"

Usage examples of "balustrades".

Near by was a dyeing vat and long skeins of silk were strung to dry between the balustrades of the house and a crimson maple tree.

Another novice snorted and then ran off to join his companions who were leaning over the balustrades of a gallery.

The grounds about the house were laid out in the old formal manner of artificial flower-beds, clipped shrubberies, raised terraces, and heavy stone balustrades, ornamented with urns, a leaden statue or two, and a jet of water.

The house, with gable and chimney, and tower, and turret, and dark doorway, and broad terrace-walk, twining among the balustrades of which, and lying heaped upon the vases, there was one great flush of roses, seemed scarcely real in its light solidity and in the serene and peaceful hush that rested on all around it.