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This is what some people in New Orleans call a sidewalk.
We can walk to the store on the banquette.
banquette by eViL pOp TaRt May 10, 2010
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Hotel Banquet 

A shitty pre-made meal served to hundreds of hapless guests by dozens of hapless servers. Usually features chicken cordon bleu.

Not a meal you wanted.
Guest 1: Hey what's for dinner after the wedding?

Guest 2: It's a hotel banquet!

Guest 1: shitty chicken cordon bleu?

Guest 2: Yep!
In New Orleans it refers to the old type of granite-curbed sidewalks found throughout the French Quarter, the Marigny, uptown and several other neighborhoods.
If you drive too fast in a rain you'll splash people walking on the banquette.
banquette by CreoleQueenSuppin August 9, 2009

Brexit Banquet 

Brexit Banquet by JoylessWonder October 21, 2021

Blanquita 

A white girl of any ethnic background whether it be a white girl of Latin American origin or not.
Black and Brown Colombians often refer to white Colombian females as Blanquitas.
Blanquita by Latinoisnotarace November 7, 2009

Banquished 

Extreme and irreversible displacement from your home or workplace. Banished + Vanquished = Banquished
Stay away from Jeff's desk. If he finds anything is missing you're likely to find yourself banquished to some third world country.
Banquished by Brett Bowen April 10, 2008