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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 ...
Footstools have been known for many years, and have evolved throughout history. The footstool is attested in ancient Egypt, where it was utilized to ascend chairs perched high off the ground. It was also used to rest a person's feet when he or she was seated. In the 18th century a low, long footstool called a fender stool was popular.
[1] [3] In the medieval period, seating consisted of benches , stools, and the very rare examples of throne-like chairs as an indication of status. The stools had two forms: the boarded [ 4 ] or Gothic [ 3 ] stool, a short bench with two board-like feet at the ends [ 3 ] and also the simple turned stool.
A divan (Turkish divan, Hindi deevaan originally from Kurdish [1] devan) is a piece of couch-like sitting furniture or, in some regions, a box-spring-based bed. Primarily, in the Middle East (especially the Ottoman Empire ), a divan was a long seat formed of a mattress laid against the side of the room, upon the floor, or a raised structure or ...
Nalin were often part of a woman's dowry. [2] Babies were sometimes given miniature versions as gifts. [2] Although mostly associated with hammans or bath houses, they were also worn in stone houses, konaks and palaces. [4] Turkish nalins are claimed [2] to have influences Venetian chopines which were similarly tall clogs.
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 .
The English word furniture is derived from the French word fourniture, [2] the noun form of fournir, which means to supply or provide. [3] Thus fourniture in French means supplies or provisions. [4]
Bar stools are used in pool or billiard halls and the style of chair customized for such use is often called a "spectator chair". Bar stools are used in Ireland during weekends by followers of the English Premier League, a practice which led to the creation of the pejorative term "barstoolers" by supporters of the League of Ireland. [3]