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Futon, e.g
Answer for the clue "Futon, e.g ", 8 letters:
mattress
Alternative clues for the word mattress
- King or queen
- You can sleep on it
- Tart crumbled in officers’ dining room makes a soft base
- Item lain upon four times in this puzzle
- Pad with springs
- Perfect Sleeper, for one
- A large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
- Sleep on it
Word definitions for mattress in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mattress is a large pad for supporting the reclining body, used as a bed or as part of a bed. Mattresses may consist of a quilted or similarly fastened case, usually of heavy cloth, that contains hair, straw, cotton, foam rubber, etc., or a framework ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Old French materas (12c., Modern French matelas ), from Italian materasso and directly from Medieval Latin matracium , borrowed in Sicily from Arabic al-matrah "the cushion" (also source of Spanish almadraque "mattress," Provençal almatrac ...
Usage examples of mattress.
Every day the outcasts were in the streets, women with junk carts, a man dragging a mattress, ordinary drunks slipping in from the dock areas, from construction craters near the Hudson, people without shoes, amputees and freaks, men splitting off from groups sleeping in fish crates under the highway and limping down past the slips and lanes, the helicopter pad, onto Broad Street, living rags.
Then, on a sudden impulse, Barnacle went back to his old mattress and gazed down on the black little twig with eyes.
The mattress was still fragrant with bedstraw gathered in the golden days of autumn but the linen wanted washing, if not today then soon.
Rand moved to the blanketless bed and sat on the linen sheet, the feather mattresses yielding under him as he studied the spear.
His belly felt full of acid, and it lurched quite involuntarily when Randy, responding to the signs that he was awake, leaped onto the mattress and presented her bristly back to be scratched.
The second secret spring brought her before my eyes, entirely naked, lying on a mattress of black satin, in the position of the Madeleine of Coreggio.
Bonapartist straw mattress, wrapped in a burnouse of the Mountain, my feet in a Democratic and Socialist sheepskin, and my head in a Legitimist cotton nightcap.
He took the other, tying triple knots in the thong that held his burse to his belt, loosening his jerkin, swinging his booted feet onto the hard, thin mattress, and pulling up a blanket of surprisingly soft merino.
Juan laid out the other microneedles in case he needed more painkiller during the night, and we went to bed in our long johns, with me hugging Juan from behind on his narrow little mattress.
His bedroom furniture consisted of a box spring and double mattress on a steel frame, one nightstand, and a mismatched chest of drawers.
Fungal growths were blooming out of cracks in the concrete, moonscape mattresses of slime.
In preparation, I had pulled the coverings tidily over the palliasse which passed as my mattress and swept the worst of the dust out on to the landing.
She lay back once more, hair spread above her on the pillowless mattress, breath taken by her own beauty.
He pulled the fitted sheet back and saw that the mattress had been covered with a soft polyurethane topper.
With his prosthetic arm, he smashed her across the face and she fell back on the mattress, tears spilling and mingling with the blood and mucus from her nose.