Banquette

A banquette is a small footpath or elevated step along the inside of a rampart or parapet of a fortification. Musketeers atop it were able to view the counterscarp, or fire on enemies in the moat. A typical size is a foot and a half (approximately half a metre) high, and almost three feet (approximately 90 cm) wide.

Banquette (along the wall on the right) on the Alhambra fortress in Spain.

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  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "banquette". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. p. 80.


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