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bannister

bannister

English

Alternative forms

banister

Noun

bannister ‎(plural bannisters)

The handrail on the side of a staircase.
One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster.

Translations

the handrail on the side of a staircase

Dutch: leuning (nl) f
Finnish: kaide (fi)
French: rampe (fr) f
Greek: κουπαστή (el) f ‎(koupastí)

Icelandic: handrið (is) n, stigahandrið n
Norwegian: gelender n
Russian: пери́ла (ru) ‎(períla), поручни ‎(poručni)

one of the vertical supports of a handrail

Icelandic: rimill m, pílári í handriði m, brjóstriðssúla f, speli m, spæll m

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