bancal

plural bancals

1. archaicrareA bench or similar seat, especially one upholstered in leather.

   the window was furnished with a broad bancal of brown stamped Spanish leather, where the family might recline[…]

   1893, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC

   3 more examples

   A few rich settles and bancals, choicely carved and decorated with glazed leather hangings of the sort termed or basané, completed the furniture of the apartment.

   1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, page 217

   De Wilton brought his fist down on the bancal with a smash. […] He was dressed entirely in black, and his heavy cloak, lined with fur, lay on a near-by bancal.

   1907, John Reed Scott, “4 and 5”, in Beatrix of Clare

   As he neared the table his opponent thrust his foot out, tripping him so that he fell head foremost up against the heavy oaken bancal and sprawled full length, face downward on the floor, unconscious as a pole-axed beef.

   1938, Seabury Quinn, “Fortune's Fools”, in Weird Tales, volume 32, number 1

1. A barangay of Botolan, Zambales, Philippines.
2. A barangay of Meycauayan, Bulacan, Philippines.