Let's have a poll

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1741857]

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[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.