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Word of the Day for Saturday, November 29, 2008balustrade \BAL-uh-strayd; bal-uh-STRAYD\, noun: 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. Yet that brutal incursion proved a fatal miscalculation on Brezhnev's part and the final turning point in the cold war. 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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