(n.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
(n.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
Example Sentences:
(1) They did, however, let the dog diner sit on the banquette to eat his lunch – quite possibly a first – and swiftly perked up when the owner came out to greet him.
(2) Owner Marco Monzauge points out the horseshoe-shaped leather banquette underneath a flat-screen television where Hollande sits on Saturday mornings when he is in his constituency.
(3) I’m in the otherwise empty upstairs room of a chic Paris restaurant, its walls, carpet and banquettes all (perhaps by chance) a Prince-appropriate purple.
(4) It dates from the 1800s, and its interior is presumably more authentic than most, but the green leather banquettes, dark wood fixtures and traditional glass partitions make it look like any number of replica high-street pubs – complete with television above the bar to show the football and a standard lineup of big brewery beers on tap.
(5) "Thank heavens for small mercies," muttered Johnson, and stuffed the offending book under the banquette.
(6) Perching himself on a banquette, he looks impeccable.
(7) "He is simply the most creative guy," gasps La Toya Jackson, gripping a banquette to steady herself as Hollywood Me ( Wednesday, 8pm, C4 ) swoons over a dazzling montage of Martyn Lawrence Bullard disco-pouffes, Martyn Lawrence Bullard souk-inspired walnut coffee tables and Martyn Lawrence Bullard Executive Soy Candles™ ($45; brown; influenced apparently by "Moroccan wind").
(8) 7-9 New Wakefield Street, 0161 236 0944, thefontbar.wordpress.com City Arms Most of Manchester's best pubs fringe the city centre, but this traditional two-roomed boozer (polished leather banquettes, black-and-white photos, etched mirrors) fights the good fight bang in the heart of the city.
(9) • 16 Parliament St, porterhousebrewco.com , Oyster Stout €4.50 Oskars, Waterford The outside of this bar may not dazzle you but it's a friendly place to drink – with modish striped banquettes, a curved (and rare) outdoor seating area and a den with games and beanbags for the kids.
(10) There is original tile work around the bar, an open fire, copper-topped tables and a bottle-green banquette that sweeps around the room.
(11) Of course they are’ Read more He was sat on a pale tangerine banquette near baggage reclaim 5 when I arrived in Phoenix shortly after four in the afternoon of 23rd January.
(12) Upstairs it’s Cheers meets queers, an East End boozer where everyone knows your name and your Grindr profile, and downstairs there’s banquette seating, arty performance and even some plays.
(13) The leather banquettes are lined with straight and lesbian couples, mainly in their late 30s and 40s, chatting sotto voce in Spanish, German and Italian.
Tread
Definition:
(v. i.) To set the foot; to step.
(v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
(v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
(v. t.) To step or walk on.
(v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
(v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
(v. t.) To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
(v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
(n.) A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
(n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
(n.) Way; track; path.
(n.) The act of copulation in birds.
(n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
(n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
(n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
(n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
(n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will it continue treading water, deciding cases in pretty much the same way as the law lords used to do - although using blunter language?
(2) He has to tread some of the same path as Joe Biden but without the posturing and aggression.
(3) I'm not in the least ambitious, never have been, and I don't tread on people.
(4) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
(5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(6) Kristen Woolf, girl-centred practice and strategy director, The Girl Hub , London, UK, @girleffect Don't lose focus on girls: Very clearly men and boys have got to be a central component of the solution, but we need to tread carefully here not to lose the focus on equality and empowerment for girls and women.
(7) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
(8) This assignment to Cairo had been relatively routine - an opportunity to get to know Egyptian politics a little better; but with only three weeks on the ground, hardly time to do anything other than tread water.
(9) UK schools are treading water when we know that matching the very best could boost the growth rate by one percentage point every year.
(10) A noninvasive criterion of occlusions of the lower limb arteries was elaborated from the results of transcutaneous measurement of oxygen tension (TmO2) during treading on a treadmill.
(11) 1982) suggested to require DA (head weaving, reciprocal forepaw treading).
(12) But the oxygen saturations on swimming were in all patients higher than after tread-wheel exercise.
(13) The changes at CDC, which is supposed to invest where other investors fear to tread, follow criticism of the organisation for focusing too much on profits and not enough on development.
(14) Now he’s remarried, with a young, new family, and treading the boards on Broadway.
(15) These figures illustrate how millions of people are treading water, struggling to keep afloat and afford the very basics.
(16) It was only when I was criticized for writing science fiction that I realized I was treading on sacred ground."
(17) That line is trickier to tread for working-class comics, into which category Bishop – with a Liverpool accent so rich it's got calories – falls.
(18) We tread a fine line and, because each picture is judged on its merits on the day, it is very difficult to have hard and fast rules.
(19) Where German officials have feared to tread, dramatists have rushed in.
(20) That doesn’t mean no one should ever criticise Israel, for fear of treading on Jewish sensitivities.