enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: why are footstools called ottomans 1 5 3 11 meaning

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ottoman (furniture) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_(furniture)

    Hinged seats also began to appear, so that the space inside the ottoman could be used to store items. The ottoman footstool, a closely allied piece of furniture, was an upholstered footstool on four legs, which could also be used as a fireside seat, the seat covered with carpet, embroidery, or beadwork. By the 20th century, the word ottoman ...

  3. Footstool - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footstool

    Editing footstool An Ottoman footstool Self-portrait of William Notman (with one foot resting on a footstool) Automobile pedals in a Subaru Legacy. From left to right: foot rest, clutch, brake, accelerator. A footstool (foot stool, footrest, foot rest) is a piece of furniture or a support used to elevate the feet.

  4. Talk:Ottoman (furniture) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ottoman_(furniture)

    In the UK we'd call this a pouffe - an Ottoman is a kind of backless sofa with either one or two ends for leaning on. They derive from the Roman dining couch and this is the authentic meaning. Not sure how silly Americans turned this into a footstool.Gymnophoria 11:49, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

  5. Rum (endonym) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_(endonym)

    Non-Ottoman Muslims in the classical period called the Ottomans Rumis because of the Byzantine legacy that was inherited by the Ottoman Empire. [10] In the Sassanian period (pre-Islamic Persia), the word Hrōmāy-īg (Middle Persian) meant "Roman" or "Byzantine" and was derived from the Byzantine Greek word Rhomaioi. [citation needed]

  6. History of Constantinople - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Constantinople

    These walls were built in three rows (taking into account the fortifications completed later, after the devastating earthquake of 447). The first row of walls, 5 m high, protected a deep and wide moat with water (it was 20 m wide and in some places up to 10 m deep). The second row, 2-3 m wide and 10 m high, was reinforced by 15 m high towers.

  7. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

  8. Turk (term for Muslims) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turk_(term_for_Muslims)

    In South Slavic languages, there are also derivative terms, which are seen as more offensive towards Bosniaks, such as poturiti, poturčiti and poturica (all essentially meaning "Turk" or "to turkify"). [4] [2] Slavic Muslims follow the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam, the most dominant school in the Ottoman Empire. [5]

  9. Email Support-AOL Help

    help.aol.com/email-support

    Get answers to your AOL Mail, login, Desktop Gold, AOL app, password and subscription questions. Find the support options to contact customer care by email, chat, or phone number.

  1. Ads

    related to: why are footstools called ottomans 1 5 3 11 meaning