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A tuffet, pouffe or hassock is a piece of furniture used as a footstool or low seat. It is distinguished from a stool in that it is completely covered in cloth so that no legs are visible, and is essentially a large hard cushion that may have an internal wooden frame to give it more rigidity. Wooden feet may be added to the base to give it stability, at which point it becomes a stool or a footstool. If the piece is larger, with storage space inside it, then it is generally known as an ottoman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ottoman )〕 The term ''hassock'' has a special association with churches, where it is used to describe the thick cushions employed by the congregation to kneel on while in prayer.〔(Church Hassocks ) Booklet describing how to make Church Hassocks.〕 ==Etymology== The names ''tuffet'' and ''hassock'' are both derived from English names for "a small grassy hillock or clump of grass", in use since at least the sixteenth century. The word ''tuffet'' comes from Anglo-French ''tuffete'', from *''tufe'' "tuft".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tuffet )〕 The first known use of the word ''tuffet'' was in 1553.〔 Chambers 20th Century Dictionary does not recognize the use of "tuffet" for a piece of furniture, and the Oxford English Dictionary says that it only "perhaps" means hassock or footstool, suggesting that this usage is due to a misunderstanding of the nursery rhyme ''Little Miss Muffet''.〔"tuffet, n.". OED Online. September 2014. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/207277?redirectedFrom=tuffet (accessed 30 September 2014).〕 ''Pouffe'' is a nineteenth-century French import for "something puffed out". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A tuffet, pouffe or hassock is a piece of furniture used as a footstool or low seat. It is distinguished from a stool in that it is completely covered in cloth so that no legs are visible, and is essentially a large hard cushion that may have an internal wooden frame to give it more rigidity.Wooden feet may be added to the base to give it stability, at which point it becomes a stool or a footstool. If the piece is larger, with storage space inside it, then it is generally known as an ottoman.(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ottoman )The term ''hassock'' has a special association with churches, where it is used to describe the thick cushions employed by the congregation to kneel on while in prayer.(Church Hassocks ) Booklet describing how to make Church Hassocks.==Etymology==The names ''tuffet'' and ''hassock'' are both derived from English names for "a small grassy hillock or clump of grass", in use since at least the sixteenth century. The word ''tuffet'' comes from Anglo-French ''tuffete'', from *''tufe'' "tuft".(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tuffet ) The first known use of the word ''tuffet'' was in 1553.Chambers 20th Century Dictionary does not recognize the use of "tuffet" for a piece of furniture, and the Oxford English Dictionary says that it only "perhaps" means hassock or footstool, suggesting that this usage is due to a misunderstanding of the nursery rhyme ''Little Miss Muffet''."tuffet, n.". OED Online. September 2014. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/207277?redirectedFrom=tuffet (accessed 30 September 2014).''Pouffe'' is a nineteenth-century French import for "something puffed out".」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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