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In fortification, a banquette is a small bank at the foot of a parapet, from which the defenders can safely fire over the parapet. The height of the parapet above the banquette was usually about 1.3 meters; the breadth of the banquette about one or two metres according to the number of ranks to occupy it. Banquettes were frequently made double, that is, a second was made still lower.
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In fortifications, the covered way was a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp covered by an embankment whose slope formed the glacis. It gave the garrison an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch.
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In fortifications, a palisade or palisado was a row of stakes set firmly in the ground and presenting a sharp point to an advancing army. the stakes were placed vertically at the foot of the slope of the counterscarp, or presented at an angle at the foot of a parapet, or on the banquette of the covered way.
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In fortifications, the tread was the top of the banquette, on which soldiers stood to fire over the parapet.
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In architecture a banquette is a narrow window seat or a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
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