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banquettes

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plural of banquette

as in ottomans

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benches

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Lab staff, mid-experiment, hid under their benches and waited there for hours.

— Daniel Jernigan, STAT, 7 Aug. 2026
Doug Gibson, the novel’s closest thing to an idealist, is a pugilistic criminal-defense lawyer, the kind with ads on bus-stop benches.

— Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026

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