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Balustrade
A balustrade, in elements of architecture , is a row of balusters set between a base and forming a shelf support, and forming a guard perforated oriented security and participating in the style of buildings.
It is a barrier installed height of support often perforated, acting railings, as the railing of a balcony, a gateway (pulpit), a flight of stairs with a barrier of deck (railing, parapet).
She sometimes has a role of ornament, decoration, such as in front of coronation.
We distinguish:
- Home railings, designed to fill the front galleries, forums ...
- External railings, arranged at the end of paved terraces of buildings, or the gutters of the roofs.
By extension and analogy, a balustrade means:
- a fence pierced or not, breast-high along a staircase , a patio , a deck , etc..
- in rail , the floor is where the engineer behind the locomotive , which is lined on both sides of a fence, up support for the guarantee of a fall.
- in the field of marine , a guard placed at the height-to-date support on the front of a poop and frontlets of fellows.
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