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n. (newel post English)
Usage examples of "newel posts".
The newel posts were carved totems, beaked, dawed, ant fierce of expression.
He loved to strip and lacquer the finely crafted old newel posts, balustrades, and door frames.
The railings and newel posts were more elaborately carved, and rose-colored carpeting covered the stairs.
Beside the steps, standing on two short newel posts, a pair of life-sized bronze statues of men with folded arms as though on guard, bronze bodies shining under spotlighting from far overhead.
The newel posts were carved totems, beaked, clawed, and fierce of expression.
A grand staircase with intricately carved newel posts climbed to a wide landing at the end of the hall, and more doorways led to rooms on either side.
Someone had long since torn out and scavenged all of the stairs, banisters, newel posts, and fixtures.
To his right, beyond a scarlet ribbon stretched between carved marble newel posts, a sweeping staircase led to the private rooms above.
The main staircase with its newel posts and its wooden banisters (now worth such a fortune that her parents actually should update their security system) wound toward the upstairs bedrooms.
It was a craftsman's showpiece: oak floorboards joined solid as steel, walls of plaster seamless as marble, the sculpted newel posts and banisters, arched alcoves (built into the walls to hold, presumably, Catholic icons).
They ran down the stairs almost at full bore, three or four steps at a time, grabbing the newel posts to check their momentum and turn them at the bottom of each flight.