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Bench table

 
(′bench ′tā·bəl)

(building construction) A projecting course of masonry at the foot of an interior wall or around a column; generally wide enough to form a seat.


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A projecting course of masonry at the foot of an interior wall, or around a column; generally wide enough to form a seat.

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Bench table (Fr. banc; Ital. sedile; Ger. Bank), the stone seat which runs round the walls of large churches, and sometimes round the piers; it very generally is placed in the porches.

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