banalité, n.f., vulgarity, a commonplace, a trite expression.
banane, n.f., banana.
bananier, n.m., banana-tree.
banc (ban), n.m., bench, seat, settle; pew; reef, shoal, bank; bed; dock, bar. Un — à dos; a bench with a back to it. Un — de gazon; a turf seat. — d’église; church seat, pew. — de l’œuvre; churchwardens’ pew. Il est encore sur les —s; he is still at college. Echouer sur un — de sable; to run aground on a sand bank. Un — de corail; a coral reef. Un — de harengs; a shoal of herrings. Un — d’huîtres; a bed of oysters. — de pierre; layer, bed, of stone. Être au — des accusés; to be in the dock. — des témoins; witness-box.
bancal, -e, adj., bandy-legged.
☉bancelle, n.f., long narrow form, seat.
banche, n.f., sunken ridge.
banco, adj., banco (a term used in exchange business). Faire —; to hold all the money staked.
bancroche, adj. V. bancal.
bandage, n.m., (surg.) bandage; application of bandages; belt; truss; tire (of wheels); hoop, (of guns); spring. — herniaire; truss. Délier un —; to undo a bandage.