banchetă banquette

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Definition / notes:Bancă de piatră pentru puşcaşi lângă o nişă de artilerie.

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.
URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banquette
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