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banquette

bench seat, banquette

noun bahn-KET Rare
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Usage Note

Banquette is an upholstered bench seat, common in restaurants, trains, or cars. In old fortification it also referred to a raised walkway behind a parapet. In North African French (banquette nord-africaine) it can describe a low bench along the wall of a room, a cultural fixture in Maghrebi interiors.

Examples

"Nous étions assis sur la banquette du train."

Natural Translation

We were sitting on the train bench seat.

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