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Encyclopedia Britannica



OTTOMAN

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 376 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
OTTOMAN , a form of couch which usually has a head but no back, though sometimes it has neither. It may have square or semicircular ends, and as a
rule
  it is what upholsterers
call
  " stuffed over "that is to say no
wood
  is visible. It belongs to the same order of ideas as the divan (q.v.); its name indeed betokens its Oriental origin. It was one of the luxurious appointments which Europe imported from the
East
  in the 18th century; the first mention that has been found of it is in France in 1729. In the course of a generation it made its way into every boudoir, but it appears originally to have been much larger than at present. The word is also applied to a small foot-
stool
  covered with
carpet
 ,
embroidery
  or beadwork. .


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