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banister definition

ban·is·ter (ban′is tər)

noun

  1. Now Rare a baluster
  2. a handrail held up by balusters, as along a staircase
  3. the handrail itself

Etymology: altered < baluster

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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