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An ottoman in a living room
An ottoman is a piece of furniture.[1] Generally ottomans have neither backs nor arms. They may be an upholstered low couch or a smaller cushioned seat used as a table, stool or footstool. The seat may have hinges and form a lid for the inside hollow, which can be used for storage of linen, magazines or other items, making it a form of storage furniture.[2][3] The smaller version is usually placed near to an armchair or sofa as part of living room decor or may be used as a fireside seat.[4]

Ottoman footstools are often sold as coordinating furniture with armchairs, sofas or gliders. Other names for this piece of furniture include footstool,[5] tuffet,[6] hassock,[7] pouf (sometimes spelled pouffe),[8][9] in Shropshire, England the old dialect word tumpty[10] may be used, or in New Zealand and Newfoundland a humpty.[11]

History
The ottoman traces its roots to furnishing practices in the Ottoman Empire, where it was the central piece of residential seating, generally designed as a low wooden platform intended to be piled with cushions. It was first designed as sectional furniture that wrapped around three walls of a room, before evolving into smaller versions that fit into the corner of a room[12] or circular padded seats surrounding a column or pole in a public room.

The ottoman was eventually brought to Europe from the Ottoman Empire in the late 18th century and named after its place of origin. The earliest known instance of the use of the name is ottomane in French in 1729,[13] and 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 first known recorded use in English occurs in one of Thomas Jefferson’s memorandum books from 1789: “P[ai]d. for an Ottomane of velours d’Utrecht.”[14] Over time, European ottomans took on a circular or octagonal shape through the 19th century, with seating divided in the center by arms or by a central, padded column that might hold a plant or statue. The ottoman began to have hinged seats to make use of the empty space inside which can 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 had come to encompass both forms.

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“Definition of OTTOMAN”. merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2017-11-12.
“Ottoman”. The Free Dictionary.
“Ottomans For Decoration and Storage”. Public Design Center. Archived from the original on 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
“footstool”. The Free Dictionary.
“tuffet”. The Free Dictionary.
“hassock”. The Free Dictionary.
“Pouf (seat)”. Cambridge Dictionaries Online. Archived from the original on 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
“Pouf”. dictionary.reference.com. Archived from the original on 2007-11-12. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
“What does tumpty mean?”. Definitions.net. 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
“What does humpty mean?”.
“Ottoman”. Britannica. Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). “Ottoman”. Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 376.
Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “ottoman”, accessed 6 March 2013.
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Aronson, Joseph (1965). Encyclopedia of Furniture. New York, Crown Publishers.
“Ottoman”. EtymologyOnLine.
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Footstool

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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 foot. There are two main types of footstool, which can be loosely categorized into those designed for comfort and those designed for function.[1]

Comfort
This type of footstool is used to provide comfort to a person seated, for example, in a chair or sofa. It is typically a short, wide, four-legged stool. The top is upholstered and padded in a fabric or animal hide, such as leather. This type of footstool is also a type of ottoman. It allows the seated person to rest their feet upon it, supporting the legs at a mostly horizontal level, thus giving rise to the alternate term footrest. High quality footstools are height–adjustable.

Function
This type of footstool supports a person’s (usually a child’s) feet that do not reach the floor when seated. The footstool is placed under the feet of a sitting person so that the person’s feet may rest comfortably on it. An example is the type of piano footstool used in conjunction with a piano bench. It is also used to make the blood circulation of the body flow more freely when sitting down.

A barber chair and a shoeshiner have foot rests. An automobile typically has a “dummy pedal” that acts as a foot rest to discourage “riding the clutch” or “riding the brake”. A foot peg is another type of foot rest usually on BMX bicycles, motorcycles, the Ford N-Series tractor, some kayaks, the Impossible wheel, and other transportation devices.

History
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. It was placed in front of the fireplace, and long enough for all of the family members to place their feet and warm them up.

Footstools were generally interchangeable in everyday life from the 17th through the early 19th century. In early American homes the footstool was very valuable, and took precious space although the living quarters were cramped.[2][3]

In line with this, the exhibition ‘A History of the World’ at Mevagissey Museum in Cornwall showed an emigrant’s footstool which was made by an emigrant from Cornwall in North America sometime around 1850s.[4]

See also
Ottoman (furniture)
Tuffet
Arm rest
Head rest
Step (footing)
Kursi
Ayat al-Kursi
References
“Footstool”. Archived from the original on 2013-04-12. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
McClard, Peggy. “Just for Fun – History of Footstools – Peggy McClard Antiques – Americana & Folk Art”. Peggymcclard.com. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
“Bar chairs”. Kipa.co.il. Tuesday, 25 December 2018
“BBC – A History of the World – Object : Emigrant’s foot stool”. Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

Footstool

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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 foot. There are two main types of footstool, which can be loosely categorized into those designed for comfort and those designed for function.[1]

Comfort
This type of footstool is used to provide comfort to a person seated, for example, in a chair or sofa. It is typically a short, wide, four-legged stool. The top is upholstered and padded in a fabric or animal hide, such as leather. This type of footstool is also a type of ottoman. It allows the seated person to rest their feet upon it, supporting the legs at a mostly horizontal level, thus giving rise to the alternate term footrest. High quality footstools are height–adjustable.

Function
This type of footstool supports a person’s (usually a child’s) feet that do not reach the floor when seated. The footstool is placed under the feet of a sitting person so that the person’s feet may rest comfortably on it. An example is the type of piano footstool used in conjunction with a piano bench. It is also used to make the blood circulation of the body flow more freely when sitting down.

A barber chair and a shoeshiner have foot rests. An automobile typically has a “dummy pedal” that acts as a foot rest to discourage “riding the clutch” or “riding the brake”. A foot peg is another type of foot rest usually on BMX bicycles, motorcycles, the Ford N-Series tractor, some kayaks, the Impossible wheel, and other transportation devices.

History
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. It was placed in front of the fireplace, and long enough for all of the family members to place their feet and warm them up.

Footstools were generally interchangeable in everyday life from the 17th through the early 19th century. In early American homes the footstool was very valuable, and took precious space although the living quarters were cramped.[2][3]

In line with this, the exhibition ‘A History of the World’ at Mevagissey Museum in Cornwall showed an emigrant’s footstool which was made by an emigrant from Cornwall in North America sometime around 1850s.[4]

See also
Ottoman (furniture)
Tuffet
Arm rest
Head rest
Step (footing)
Kursi
Ayat al-Kursi
References
“Footstool”. Archived from the original on 2013-04-12. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
McClard, Peggy. “Just for Fun – History of Footstools – Peggy McClard Antiques – Americana & Folk Art”. Peggymcclard.com. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
“Bar chairs”. Kipa.co.il. Tuesday, 25 December 2018
“BBC – A History of the World – Object : Emigrant’s foot stool”. Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

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