What type of furniture is also known as an Ottoman?
Ottoman (furniture) to have hinged seats underneath to hold storage. Ottoman (furniture) An ottoman is a form of couch which usually has a head but no back, though sometimes it has neither. It may have square or semicircular ends, and as a rule it is what upholsterers call "overstuffed"—that is to say no wood is visible. It may be used as a stool, footstool, coffee table, or as an alternative to a sofa. Ottomans are often sold as coordinating furniture with armchairs or gliders. An ottoman can also be known as a "footstool", "tuffet", "hassock", or "pouffe". "Ottoman" may also denote an
Ottoman (furniture) one that usually serves as storage, with the seat hinged to form a lid. 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 or circular padded seats surrounding a column or pole in a public room. The ottoman was eventually brought to Europe from the Ottoman Empire