Banquette

1. n. A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
2. n. A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.