[DOC] [TLE] Q: How did the ottoman get its name? A: Turkish... - tribunedigital ... [PAR] Aug 11, 1996 ... The design has a stylish kinship to bales of cotton that carpet weavers once put 
their feet on in their tents in the Turkish empire, says Spiegel... [DOC] [TLE] Wordwizard  View topic - ottoman [PAR] Which got me to thinking, isn't the OTTOMAN, in addition to being the ... 'Osmanli'
[[the language of the Ottoman Turks or an Ottoman]]: noun, adjective  a .... up 
about why the cushion footstool was named after the ottoman empire. my ... they 
imported in from the Ottoman Empire, ignoring its Turkish name. [DOC] [TLE] Ottoman (furniture) - Wikipedia [PAR] An ottoman is a form of couch which usually has a head but no back, though 
sometimes it has ... The ottoman traces its roots from the Ottoman Empire, where 
it was the central piece of residential seating ... The earliest known instance of the 
use of the name is ottomane in French in 1729, while the first known recorded 
use in... [DOC] [TLE] Why Is an Ottoman Called an Ottoman? | Home Guides | SF Gate [PAR] The Ottoman gets it name from its exotic -- to Europeans -- origins. The low seats 
or hassocks were imported from Turkey during the 1700s when the ... 
synonymous -- a footstool being a low upholstered stool with legs, originally set 
next to a hearth. ... storage -- and padded hassocks to match chairs all share the 
name today. [DOC] [TLE] washingtonpost.com: Constantinople: City of the World's Desire ... [PAR] Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, known in Turkish as Fatih, the 
Conqueror, was only 20 in 1453. .... The Ottoman dynasty were originally 
members of the Kayi tribe of the Oghuz clan of Turks, .... Its official name conveys 
its dynastic essence: it was the `divinely protected' or ... The Conqueror also 
imported Greeks. [DOC] [TLE] This content downloaded from 66.249.79.46 on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 06 ... [PAR] Much of what the authors consider Ottoman legacies are in fact "Western" ... larly 
divides legacy into "imported" and "indigenous" ideologies and devotes .... in The 
Jews of the Ottoman Empire were originally prepared, "was convened at Bra ... 
gether scholars working in the field of Ottoman and Turkish studies with their... [DOC] [TLE] furniture - History | Britannica.com [PAR] Feb 23, 2016 ... The royal footstool was painted with the figures of traditional enemies of ... 
Egyptian furniture in general was light and easily transportable; its ... blending the 
design of frame and cushion into one effect; this was much .... Name the African 
Battle ... Pablo Escobar: 8 Interesting Facts About the King of Cocaine. [DOC] [TLE] languages  with Amin Maalouf [PAR] Furthermore, she has borrowed plentifully from the Persians, Indians, Turks, ... 
literally, 'the moon of religion', a funny expression that originally denoted a type of 
apricot. .... Regarding the drink itself, its name could well come from the Hindi 
word ... The Latin word, from which we get 'table' and various related terms in 
many... [DOC] [TLE] September  2009  with Amin Maalouf [PAR] The Latin word, from which we get 'table' and various related terms in many ... But 
I changed my mind because it is the city itself  and its name  that interests me. 
... of its name could also be explained by the fact that 'Baghdad' was simply the ... 
All these words come originally from the Arabic matrah, derived from the verb... [DOC] [TLE] Turkey and the Turks: Educational Resource Guide [PAR] Rum (their name for Rome, since this had been part of the Roman ...... In this 
lesson the students will try to get some sense of the extent and greatness of the 
Ottoman Empire. Many of the ...... covers over sofas, or as cushion covers. ..... 
reflects the fact that, originally, rice was an expensive imported food that only the 
rich. [DOC] [TLE] Textile fragment Turkish, Ottoman, Last half of the 16th century ...

Question: This cushioned footstool gets its name from the fact that it was originally imported from the Turks
Answer: ottoman