Let's have a poll

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1741857]

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[inamac.livejournal.com]

The other name for loveseat is 'conversation chair' (it's most usually a piece of garden furniture rather than interior upholstery).

If, by ottoman, you mean a box with a hinged padded lid, then yes.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

But not as a generic term for an upholstered foot-rest?

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Er, no. That would be a footstool or a pouffe. I think of an ottoman as more of a bedroom piece of furniture.

OTOH note that (a)I am ancient and behind the times and (b) as more furniture is physically imported from the US the terms are beginning to come with them.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

(pardon late reply) Indeed, in the UK an Ottoman is a hinged-lid upholstered box of a size large enough to sit on, rather than footstool-sized. Agreed with the more likely to be bedroom furniture point - it would be likely to be used as a blanket chest.