Ottomans
[ɒtəmənz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Ottoman
Editor: Stu
Examples
- Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The ottomans, which were uniformly placed, were covered with satin to correspond with the drapery, and fringed with silver. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The Ottomans organized a standing military force, the Janissaries, rather on the lines of the Mamelukes who dominated Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the old tea-chests stuffed and covered for ottomans! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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