Monday, October 21, 2013

banquet, banquette

Banquet or banquet means a feast, or an elaborate meal--
There will be more than a hundred people at the banquet.
Does this restaurant have banquet facilities?

Banquette or banquette means an upholstered bench, usually set against a wall--
There he is, waving at us from the banquette in the back.
There is a banquette running along the wall, and chairs on the other side of each table.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"There were so many people at the banquet that we had to squeeze in extra people on the banquette."

Note--"banquette" may mean sidewalk, in the American South--
They stood on the banquette talking, as if there wasn't another person in the world.
"Banquette" also means a kind of ledge, built inside the parapet of a fort--
The soldiers walked up and down the banquette.

No comments:

Post a Comment