1) An upholstered bench 2) Bench 3) Bench built into a wall 4) Castle architecture 5) French word used in English 6) Upholstered bench
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1) Bench
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In fortification, a banquette is a small foot path or elevated step along the inside of a rampart or parapet, by which the musketeers get up to view the counterscarp, or to fire on the enemies in the moat. These are generally a foot and a half (approximately half a metre) high, and almost three feet (approximately 90 cm) wide. A banquette may also...
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raised way or footway above a parapet
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• (n.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy. • (n.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser. • (n.) A bench or seat for passengers on the top of a diligence or other public vehicle.Banquette: words in the definitio...
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Firing step behind a parapet
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Ban·quette' (băn*kĕt')
noun [ French See
Banquet ,
noun ]
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. (Architecture) A narrow window seat; a ra...
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Ban·quette' noun A bench or seat for passengers on the top of a diligence or other public vehicle. « My brother-in-law . . . took refuge in the
banquette .»
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A parapet's firing step.
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In fortification, a banquette is a small bank at the foot of a parapet, from which the defenders can safely fire over the parapet. The height of the parapet above the banquette was usually about 1.3 meters; the breadth of the banquette about one or two metres according to the number of ranks to occupy it. Banquettes were frequently made double, tha...
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In architecture a banquette is a narrow window seat or a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
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n] - an upholstered bench
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noun an upholstered bench
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A long benchlike seat, often upholstered, and generally built into a wall.
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