Both Uses of
Ottoman Empire
in
Bleak House
- Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- "Even," proceeds Sir Leicester, glancing at the circumjacent cousins on sofas and ottomans, "even in many—in fact, in most—of those places in which the government has carried it against a faction—"†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(Ottoman Empire) Turkish Empire founded in the late 13th century after the collapse of the Byzantine Empire and lasting until the end of World War I; in the 16th-17th century it ruled much of Southeastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa