[每日] balustrade (n) 欄杆
Word of the Day (Saturday November 29, 2008)
balustrade \BAL-uh-strayd; bal-uh-STRAYD\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/f059R
a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people
from falling
The camera is a couple of floors up, pointing out over the
balustrade and down toward us on the ground floor.
-- Dan Zak, A Weekend in the Life of an Extra, Washington Post,
April 26, 2003
This evening there wasn't even a truck in the yard, so there was
no one to notice the individual leaning on the molded balustrade
of the balcony, except perhaps for a pair of seagulls out on
patrol, two white specks drifting across the sky.
-- Victor Pelevin, The Life Of Insects (Translated by Andrew
Browmfield)
by 1644, "row of balusters," from French balustrade, from Italian
balaustrata "provided with balusters," from balaustro "pillar,"
from balausta "flower of the wild pomegranate," from Greek
balaustion (perhaps of Semitic origin, cf. Aramaic balatz "flower
of the wild pomegranate"). Staircase uprights had lyre-like double
curves, like the calyx tube of the pomegranate flower.
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