英语词汇ottoman的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ottoman. Osman I (1259–1326) would not appreciate the fact that many readers are resting their feet on him, or his name- sake, while reading this. But the ottoman, a stuffed footstool more often called a hassock, its Old English designation, is defi- nitely named for him. Osman, sometimes called Othman, led his Muslim followers farther west from Asia Minor in the late 13th century to found the Ottoman Empire, principally what we know as Turkey today. Tales of this great empire, which last- ed until its dissolution in 1918, excited the imagination of Euro- peans and toward the end of the 18th century merchants saw that there was a ready market in Europe for items of Eastern luxury, for the carpets, pillows, and divans that people imag- ined sultans lounged upon in their luxurious harems. These in- cluded a small, backless couch for two that the French called the ottoman because they imported it from the Ottoman Em- pire, ignoring its Turkish name. The couch or divan eventually became both the overstuffed English ottoman sofa, acquiring a back in the process, and, in a much smaller form, the ottoman footstool.

词汇	ottoman
词源	ottoman. Osman I (1259–1326) would not appreciate the fact that many readers are resting their feet on him, or his name- sake, while reading this. But the ottoman, a stuffed footstool more often called a hassock, its Old English designation, is defi- nitely named for him. Osman, sometimes called Othman, led his Muslim followers farther west from Asia Minor in the late 13th century to found the Ottoman Empire, principally what we know as Turkey today. Tales of this great empire, which last- ed until its dissolution in 1918, excited the imagination of Euro- peans and toward the end of the 18th century merchants saw that there was a ready market in Europe for items of Eastern luxury, for the carpets, pillows, and divans that people imag- ined sultans lounged upon in their luxurious harems. These in- cluded a small, backless couch for two that the French called the ottoman because they imported it from the Ottoman Em- pire, ignoring its Turkish name. The couch or divan eventually became both the overstuffed English ottoman sofa, acquiring a back in the process, and, in a much smaller form, the ottoman footstool.
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