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Similarly, Bombay furniture (a style combining European forms with Indian ornamentation) provided the metonymic euphemism The Bombay; the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the name is possibly attributable to the Bombay chair , wherein chamberpots were placed, as it was common in the past to have one's chamberpot concealed in a piece of furniture, which could then be proudly displayed.
Burchfield (Oxford University Press); A Reporter's Life , by Walter Cronkite (Knopf); Alias Grace , by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday); and Whistle Down the Wind (National Theatre, Washington, D.C.).
Mad for Words: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
But outside Venice, Italians did not begin to adopt hereditary surnames until the 14th and 15th centuries, a bit later than most of the rest of Europe, according to Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, authors of the addictive A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford University Press, 1988).