Hi,
Sorry if the question is a little off topic, but I have limitations with my
woodworking-furniture english vocabulary. I need to know which is the
english name for the small furniture that you can locate before the sofa,
where you can put your feet to rest while looking at TV or reading?
Thanks in advance
Faustino
>
>Hi,
>
>Sorry if the question is a little off topic, but I have limitations with my
>woodworking-furniture english vocabulary. I need to know which is the
>english name for the small furniture that you can locate before the sofa,
>where you can put your feet to rest while looking at TV or reading?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Faustino
>
>
It is called a dog. He seems to like it, and it keeps my feet warm.
To get things back on topic, he comes into the workshop, so he may also be
known as the bench dog.
Also have a shop cat, but the feet generally go under him.
John Martin
coffee table works too but the footstool and ottoman are the correct items
you're looking for.
The noun footstool has one meaning:
Meaning #1: a low stool to rest the feet of a seated person
Synonyms: footrest, ottoman
ot·to·man (ot'?-m?n)
n., pl. -mans.
1..
1.. An upholstered sofa or divan without arms or a back.
2.. An upholstered low seat or cushioned footstool.
Compliments of GuruNet..........
Bob S.
Faustino Dina <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry if the question is a little off topic, but I have limitations with my
> woodworking-furniture english vocabulary. I need to know which is the
> english name for the small furniture that you can locate before the sofa,
> where you can put your feet to rest while looking at TV or reading?
Well, if it is intended for your feet it would be called a foot stool
or ottoman. An ottoman is generally larger with padding or upholstery.
Some people like to put their feet on a coffee table, but those
are really low tables meant to hold drinks and magazines, etc.
Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.
Bob S. wrote:
> coffee table works too but the footstool and ottoman are the correct items
> you're looking for.
>
> The noun footstool has one meaning:
>
> Meaning #1: a low stool to rest the feet of a seated person
> Synonyms: footrest, ottoman
>
>
> ot·to·man (ot'?-m?n)
> n., pl. -mans.
>
> 1..
> 1.. An upholstered sofa or divan without arms or a back.
> 2.. An upholstered low seat or cushioned footstool.
>
> Compliments of GuruNet..........
>
> Bob S.
>
>
We also had a very old stuffed footstoll we called our "hassock". It
was sort of round with a very coarse velvet-like fabric covering and was
stuffed very firmly, thus it was quite heavy and stable.
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| Speaking of, didn't the term originate from the Ottoman Empire being
| known as the footstool to the region, or something like that? Seems I
| remember somethng about that from school, maaaaaannnnnny years ago.
Probably not. The original "ottoman" is a couch without a back or armrests.
The "Ottoman couch" was just the style of furniture preferred in the region.
Not too hard to see how such a piece would be co-opted into being used as a
footstool, much as the coffee table today has been co-opted. I'm sure there
were plenty of Ottoman mothers reminding their youngsters to keep their feet
off the backless couch. Obviously that didn't work.
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> "Footstool" and "ottoman" come to mind. The latter applies only if it's
> stuffed and upholstered.
>
I do remember an Early American adjustable one from an old Fine
Woodworking called a "gout stool".
Talk about archaic terminology :-).
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Speaking of, didn't the term originate from the Ottoman Empire being
known as the footstool to the region, or something like that? Seems I
remember somethng about that from school, maaaaaannnnnny years ago.
Bob S. wrote:
> coffee table works too but the footstool and ottoman are the correct items
> you're looking for.
>
> The noun footstool has one meaning:
>
> Meaning #1: a low stool to rest the feet of a seated person
> Synonyms: footrest, ottoman
>
>
> ot·to·man (ot'?-m?n)
> n., pl. -mans.
>
> 1..
> 1.. An upholstered sofa or divan without arms or a back.
> 2.. An upholstered low seat or cushioned footstool.
>
> Compliments of GuruNet..........
>
> Bob S.
>
>
[email protected] wrote:
> Some people like to put their feet on a coffee table, but those
> are really low tables meant to hold drinks and magazines, etc.
And all of SWMBO's girlie crap she never puts away.
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"Faustino Dina" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if the question is a little off topic, but I have limitations with
my
> woodworking-furniture english vocabulary. I need to know which is the
> english name for the small furniture that you can locate before the sofa,
> where you can put your feet to rest while looking at TV or reading?
Sofa tables are typically "behind" the sofa, so I'd say "coffee table".
Ottoman, is a possibility I suppose.
"Faustino Dina" <[email protected]> writes:
> Sorry if the question is a little off topic, but I have limitations with my
> woodworking-furniture english vocabulary. I need to know which is the
> english name for the small furniture that you can locate before the sofa,
> where you can put your feet to rest while looking at TV or reading?
In some houses, it's a "coffee table", although your mother keeps
telling you to NOT put your feet on it.