banquette
noun/bæŋˈket/
/bæŋˈket/
- a long soft seat along a wall in a restaurant, etc.Word Originearly 17th cent. : from French, from Italian banchetta, diminutive of banca ‘bench’, from medieval Latin banca, bancus, of Germanic origin. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.
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