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Banquette

In fortification, a banquette is a little 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 high, and almost three feet wide.

A banquette may also be an upholstered bench or a footbridge.

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Translation of "Banquette"

Ukrainian: Банкет.


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