Stairway vs Balustrade - What's the difference?
stairway | balustrade |
A set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway ,
(architecture) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 45
As nouns the difference between stairway and balustrade
is that stairway is a set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably while balustrade is a row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.stairway
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(en noun)Synonyms
* staircase * stairsbalustrade
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(en noun)- The Jester sat down on one of the marble balustrades and regarded Alvin with a curious intentness.