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n. A platform lining a trench or parapet wall on which soldiers may stand when firing.

n. Southern Louisiana & East Texas A raised sidewalk: "The flower of loafers . . . was found stretched on the banquette on Tuesday night” ( New Orleans Daily Picayune). See Regional Note at beignet.

n. A long upholstered bench placed against or built into a wall.

n. A ledge or shelf, as on a buffet.

n. A (typically upholstered) bench-like seat that runs along a wall.

n. A similar bench in a military trench which soldiers stand on to shoot.

n. A sidewalk.

n. A bench or seat for passengers on the top of a diligence or other public vehicle.

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. In fortification, a raised way or foot-bank, running along the inside of a parapet breast-high above it, on which riflemen stand to fire upon the enemy.

n. In medieval fortification, an advanced earthwork or palisaded defense outside of the ditch.

n. The footway of a bridge when raised above the carriageway.

n. A bench for passengers, or the space occupied by benches, on the top of a French diligence, and hence of any public vehicle.

n. A sidewalk.

n. An elevated platform made of stones, running along the walls of cliff-dwellings and kivas.

n. an upholstered bench

"_banquette_ on a fine summer's day is one of the most enjoyable places in life; it is cheap, and certainly not too rapid (five or six miles an hour being the average); and we can sit almost as comfortably in a corner of the banquette as in an easy-chair."

bench   

banquette tread    banquette slope   

collarette    kneeler    overboot    loveseat    recliner