Associations to the word «Banquette»

Wiktionary

BANQUETTE, noun. A (typically upholstered) bench-like seat that runs along a wall.
BANQUETTE, noun. A similar bench in a military trench which soldiers stand on to shoot.
BANQUETTE, noun. (dated) A bench or seat for passengers on the top of a diligence or other public vehicle.
BANQUETTE, noun. (southern Louisiana) (eastern Texas) A sidewalk.

Dictionary definition

BANQUETTE, noun. An upholstered bench.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope