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Banquette   Listen
noun
Banquette  n.  
1.
(Fort.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
2.
(Arch.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.





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"Banquette" Quotes from Famous Books



... ground, but Union was better built—she had twenty-foot palisades a foot square, and she stood two hundred and forty by two hundred and twenty feet, with stone bastions at two corners, pierced for cannon, and a riflemen's banquette ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough


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