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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 376 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OTTOMAN , a See also:

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

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