英语词汇banister的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	banister
词源	banister; baluster. Banister, a support for a handrail on a staircase, is a mispronunciation of baluster, first recorded in En- glish over three centuries ago. Baluster comes from balaustion, the Greek name for a specific flower. Because Greek architects used the outlines of these flowers for the shapes of the short pil- lars supporting handrails, baluster came to mean the supports themselves.
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