ban·kit (bāng'kĭt) n.
Southern Louisiana & East Texas Variant of banquette.
ban·quette (bāng-kět') n.
A platform lining a trench or parapet wall on which soldiers may stand when firing.
also ban·kit (bāng'kĭt) Southern Louisiana & East Texas A raised sidewalk: "The flower of loafers . . . was found stretched on the banquette on Tuesday night"(New Orleans Daily Picayune). See Regional Note at beignet.
A long upholstered bench placed against or built into a wall.
A ledge or shelf, as on a buffet.
[French, from Provençal banqueta, diminutive of banca, bench, of Germanic origin.]
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