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Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw referred to an ottoman in this passage from his novel Pygmalion; "In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things."
English author Wilkie Collins referred to an ottoman in his novel, The Moonstone, "She instantly seated herself on the ottoman in the back drawing-room."
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