Balustrade

A balustrades is a post of reinflated form, generally assembled with other posts by a shelf with height of support.

In the field of the elements of Architecture, a balustrades is an ornament of Balustrade offering the aspect of small column finished to the collar by a half-sphere or bandages, to which it is attached by a widening out in the form of leave.

The balusters of closing are balusters often out of wooden, of form very lengthened forming bars in nettings of fence. The term of balustrades also indicates a whole of posts supporting the handrail of a Escalier.

By Métonymie, it can also indicate a Balustrade , i.e. a line of balusters joined together between them by a shelf with height of support. It can in particular represent:

a small balustrade being used as Fence in a church.
a balustrade being used as fence in a room of parade.
a gallery of Theater.

By Analogy, the term of balustrades is also employed in the following fields:

In cabinet work, a baluster is a kind of post being used as ornament with the file of a Chaise, called chair with balusters , or a post being used to support a piece of furniture or part of a piece of furniture.
In Goldsmithery, a baluster is the part of the mounting of a Chandelier, which is usually placed about the middle.
In Technology, a drop pen is a very small compasses to trace Cercle S, comprising two surmounted branches of a kind of small handle in the shape of baluster, with the means of which one operates the instrument by rotation, between the inch and the index.
For the Freemasonry, in certain tops ranks, a balustrades means “board” or “board to be traced” (In Ligou, dic. frank masonry, PUF 1998 p.108).

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