Chesterfield Lyons: Where Does The Term Chesterfield Come From?
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As Britain's original Chesterfield company...
Cumbria 12/30/2011 12:44 PM GMT (TransWorldNews) Chesterfield Lyons Recent Submissions Chesterfield Lyons: Where Does The Term Chesterfield Come From? As Britain's original Chesterfield company, this is a question we are often asked; the answer is we're not sure! We have customers the world over who have their own ideas; our Canadian customers like to think that Chesterfield is a Canadian word although they refer to any sofa as a Chesterfield. We have done a little research and according to Robert Hendrickson in the Encyclopedia of word and phrase origins, the term chesterfield is commonly applied to a sofa in honour of Philip Stanhope, the forth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773). However, Hendrickson points out that it is more likely that a latter Earl of Chesterfield invented them, which earl he does not know. At any rate, according to the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), it was used to refer to a couch in 1900. » Chesterfield Lyons: Where Does The Term Chesterfield Come From? |
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