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  2. Ottoman (furniture) - Wikipedia

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    Ottoman footstools are often sold as coordinating furniture with armchairs, sofas, or gliders. Other names for this piece of furniture include footstool , [ 5 ] hassock , [ 6 ] pouf (sometimes spelled pouffe ), [ 7 ] [ 8 ] in Shropshire , England, the old dialect word tumpty , [ 9 ] and in Newfoundland humpty .

  3. List of furniture types - Wikipedia

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    An expandable table with chairs. This is a list of furniture types. Furniture can be free-standing or built-in to a building. [1] They typically include pieces such as chairs, tables, storage units, and desks. [1] These objects are usually kept in a house or other building to make it suitable or comfortable for living or working in.

  4. Coffee table - Wikipedia

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    Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, and this idea may have come from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s, [ 5 ] and low tables were common in Japan , this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.

  5. Molly house - Wikipedia

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    Molly house or molly-house was a term used in 18th- and 19th-century Britain for a meeting place for homosexual men and gender-nonconforming people. The meeting places were generally taverns, public houses, coffeehouses [1] or even private rooms [2] where patrons could either socialise or meet possible sexual partners.

  6. Brazier - Wikipedia

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    The brazier could sit in the open in a large room; often it was incorporated into furniture. Many cultures developed their own variants of a low table, with a heat source underneath and blankets to capture the warmth: the kotatsu in Japan, the korsi in Iran, the sandali in Afghanistan, [ 5 ] and the foot stove in northern Europe.

  7. Fancy molly - Wikipedia

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    Marbled mollies have black blotches, which is a trait found in some wild fish as well. The fully black fish were created by breeding the fish with the largest blotches. The marbled mollies are also traded as salt-and-pepper mollies or Dalmatian mollies. [3] Albino mollies are golden-yellow and pink eyes as a result of not producing color ...

  8. Furniture - Wikipedia

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    A popular furniture hardwood is American black cherry. Cherry is a light reddish brown to brown color that intensifies into a rich color as it ages, and grows mostly in the eastern United States. Cherry has a tighter grain than birch and is softer. Much cherry lumber is narrow, and it has been utilized to make many lovely classic furniture ...

  9. Poecilia velifera - Wikipedia

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    They need spacious tanks with well-aerated, slightly brackish [4] water to thrive. They are able to withstand higher temperatures than most pet fish. Although they can survive over 30 °C for prolonged periods of time if other conditions are good, temperatures should be kept between 25 and 30 °C.