What is "balustrading"

Usage examples of "balustrading".

The lines of division were guarded by low balustrading, broken by massive pedestals, many of which were surmounted with statuary.

For instance, when the conversation turned upon country houses, I said that Prince Ivan Ivanovitch had a villa near Moscow which people came to see even from London and Paris, and that it contained balustrading which had cost 380,000 roubles.

Likewise, I remarked that the Prince was a very near relation of mine, and that, when lunching with him the same day, he had invited me to go and spend the entire summer with him at that villa, but that I had declined, since I knew the villa well, and had stayed in it more than once, and that all those balustradings and bridges did not interest me, since I could not bear ornamental work, especially in the country, where I liked everything to be wholly countrified.

Mallory began to walk down the corridor at a measured sentry's tread, towards the stone balustrading round the stairway at its end.

The drab cinder blocks that were the walls only made the man who had been Horst Vessel long all the more for the glorious paintings, the lush carpets, and the ornate balustrading that he had gloried in during his youth.

Their combined weight became too heavy-the balustrading collapsed and they both fell .