Persian palace Newspaper stall Band stand

Where is the kiosk from ? In Persia, a Kösk was a palace which initially looked like a stronghold.The Turks who were in touch with their Persian neighbours, adopted this type of fortress to turn them into small cosy private palaces (Kösk) nested in profuse gardens quite fashionable under the Ottoman Empire. Year after year,the Turkish Kösk would become a kind of summer house where sultans would enjoy gathering with their relatives and close friends, and eventually, a kösk would also serve as a shade to fountains in a mosque yard.  In Europe, a kiosk also became a band stand in the open air, and in most public spaces. For those not so hooked on music, a kiosk means a newspapers stall where the favorite daily paper is available. The word has spread to most European languages such as the Italian Kiosco , the French Kiosque and the PortugueseQuiosque for instance. So, let us pick up a word from thekioskand find out its story and the journey it made throughout some European languages .

Railways Station stall Booth Newspaper stall

Navigating in the kiosk : there are three kinds of vocables : BIOGRAPHIES refering to the words with a biographic origin ; CONCEPT for those which stem from an idea a concept, and eventually, PRODUCTS for those defining a product brought, namely, by invaders, or brought back from the crusades or the Great Discoveries. Each of the three items includes a list of clickable words. These items figure in the rectangles below, and have their own identification symbol. Just click on one of them to enter and take your pick on the corresponding list of words.