taffrail

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Noun
  • Clark signed autographs well beyond both baselines, her John Hancock filling up the length of the gym for fans draped over the railing behind the benches.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2025
  • Fans are lined up on railings, cheering you on and supporting you.
    Evan Crowell, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.
    Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2025
  • Ramon Portelli for Studio NiCHE The comparatively large 10-sq-m (107-sq-ft) outdoor terrace features a bespoke limestone planter in place of a traditional balustrade.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There, he’s been working on high-speed rail, notably the long-beleaguered effort to build fast train lines up and down the spine of California.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 May 2025
  • While Ramaphosa kept his composure and the meeting did not go off the rails like the infamous February meeting in the Oval Office between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the South African president was clearly put on his heels by Trump’s tactics.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Stairs with an original wood banister rise to the second level, and adjacent to the foyer is a parlor.
    Angela Serratore, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • The house has its original hardwood floors, and stairs with the original wood banister run up to the second floor.
    Angela Serratore, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Recreations of railroad crossings and road signs and a guardrail prop added to the Texas-by-way-of-Hollywood vibe.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
  • The legislature voted again to extend the guardrails for five years until June 30, 2028 but can be stopped by lawmakers after that date.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Visually, the scene recreates most of the composition and blocking of the game cutscene, from the design on Joel’s mug to the timing of when Ellie nervously thumps the porch bannister.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
  • Kidman’s stairs are shrouded in fog, slicked with ice, seemingly steep, and have dangerous polar-mushrooms sprouting from the bannisters.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Taffrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taffrail. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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