A banquette is a long, low, cushioned seat. Banquettes are usually long enough for more than one person to sit on at a time
The step of earth inside the parapet, sufficiently high to enable the defenders standing upon it to fire over the crest of the parapet, yet be protected
(baun-kett): The narrow walk behind the breastheight or interior slope on which the infantry stands while firing The flat walk is the banquette tread; the slope up to it is the banquette slope
A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy