Proper noun
Balestier (plural Balestiers)
A surname.
Biography by a scholar who uses newly opened Kipling letters to argue he was a repressed homosexual who married Caroline Balestier although he was really in love with her brother Wolcott; critics call the book controversial. Source: Internet
Before his return, he had used the telegram to propose to and be accepted by Wolcott's sister Caroline Starr Balestier (1862–1939), called "Carrie", whom he had met a year earlier, and with whom he had apparently been having an intermittent romance. Source: Internet
For some time, relations between Carrie and her brother Beatty Balestier had been strained, owing to his drinking and insolvency. Source: Internet
With Josephine's arrival, Bliss Cottage was felt to be congested, so eventually the couple bought land—convert on a rocky hillside overlooking the Connecticut River —from Carrie's brother Beatty Balestier, and built their own house. Source: Internet
The couple settled upon a honeymoon that would take them first to the United States (including a stop at the Balestier family estate near Brattleboro, Vermont ) and then on to Japan. Source: Internet
Simply put, when Linderboom turns up – Balestier plays a lot better. Source: Internet