OTTOMAN
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 33
An epithet given to the Turkish empire, from Othman 1., who ascended the throne in the 14th century. It is also applied to a peculiar kind of sofa much m use in Turkey, and which has been imitated both here and on the Continent. [s. 876]
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