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2. Ottoman (furniture) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Footstool - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. List of furniture types - Wikipedia

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   An expandable table with chairs. This is a list of furniture types. Furniture can be free-standing or built-in to a building. [1] They typically include pieces such as chairs, tables, storage units, and desks. [1] These objects are usually kept in a house or other building to make it suitable or comfortable for living or working in.

5. Mirror armour - Wikipedia

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   Ottoman 15th to 16th century mirror armour is commonly referred to as "Krug", while the name for the same type of armour in Russia is зерцало (zertsalo), and the modern technical term is зерцальный доспех (zertsal'niy dospekh), from the Russian зерцальный (zertsal'niy) – "mirror"; and Russian: доспех ...

6. Furniture - Wikipedia

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   The variety of Byzantine furniture is pretty big: tables with square, rectangle or round top, sumptuous decorated, made of wood sometimes inlaid, with bronze, ivory or silver ornaments; chairs with high backs and with wool blankets or animal furs, with coloured pillows, and then banks and stools; wardrobes were used only for storing books ...

7. Divan (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Stool (seat) - Wikipedia

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   Three-legged joined stool Tolix stool, 1945, France Bar stool "Eiffel Tower" from 1950, Paris/ France Molded plastic stools. A stool is a raised seat commonly supported by three or four legs, but with neither armrests nor a backrest (in early stools), and typically built to accommodate one occupant.

9. Multifunctional furniture - Wikipedia

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   Monks bench, a table/bench; Ottoman, a stool where the seat often is hinged with a hollow inside which can be used for storage; Pull-down bed, a folding bed that is hinged on one end so that it can be stored vertically against a wall or inside a cupboard; Recliner, a chair which can be folded out to a near supine position for sleeping