stove

stove
stove (n.) mid-15c., "heated room, bath-room," from M.L.G. or M.Du. stove, both meaning "heated room," which was the original sense in English; a general West Germanic word (Cf. O.E. stofa "bath-room," Ger. Stube "sitting room") of uncertain relationship to similar words in Romance languages (Cf. It. stufa, Fr. étuve "sweating-room;" see STEW (Cf. stew) (v.)). One theory traces them all to V.L. *extufare "take a steam bath." The meaning "device for heating or cooking" is first recorded 1610s. Stove pipe is recorded from 1690s; as a type of tall cylindrical hat for men, from 1851.

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