Crossword clues for futon
futon
- Dorm furnishing
- Couch/bed hybrid
- Bachelor pad?
- Versatile home furniture
- Typical dorm furniture
- Traditional Japanese mattress
- Studio bed
- Sleep-on-the-floor pad
- Part couch, part bed
- Mattress used as a bed or sofa
- Mattress in many a dorm room
- Japanese-style mattress
- Japanese-style bed
- Japanese bedding
- Informal sleep option
- Guest's sleeping spot, maybe
- Guest mattress
- Foldable furniture piece
- Easily stowable bed
- Couch alternative
- Bed that can be stored during the day
- Bed in a dorm room, maybe
- Bed by night, couch by day
- Bed alternative
- Bachelor pad mattress
- Apartment furniture piece
- Fold-up mattress
- Sleep on it
- Cot alternative
- Crash pad?
- Informal bed
- Mattress for sleeping on the floor
- Kind of mattress
- Somewhere to sleep in Corfu tonight
- Not getting up after endless fun in bed
- Foldable mattress
- Pleasure holding books, retiring to bed
- Padded mattress for sleeping on the floor
- Item of furniture fun to put together differently
- Joy is about to sleep on this
- Joy catches pair leaving wife in bed
- Japanese sofa bed
- Japanese mattress
- Japanese bedroll
- Unsprung roll-up mattress
- Crash site?
- Collapsible bed
- Foldable bed
- Japanese padded quilt
- Thin mattress
- Studio bed, perhaps
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1876, from Japanese, said to mean "bedroll" or "place to rest."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed. 2 A round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
WordNet
n. mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame
Wikipedia
A is traditional Japanese bedding comprising a quilted mattress that is usually laid on the floor. A bedding set consists of both a and a , although the word "futon" is also used to refer specifically to the mattress. Both elements of a futon bedding set are pliable enough to be folded and stored away during the day, allowing the room to serve for purposes other than as a bedroom.
Western-style futons, which typically resemble low, wooden sofa beds, differ substantially from their Japanese counterparts.
Usage examples of "futon".
Setting her valise at the back of the closet, she closed the door and glanced at the futon lying under the window.
The clean smell of the room, as though the futon and pillow were stuffed with lemon balm.
She loved the firmness of the futon, the way you could turn over on it without making a bedspring creak, because there was no box spring underneath, only the floor.
Reduced to sleeping in a junked car when she could have been sharing the futon back in the apartment on Stanton Street.
He saw that housekeeping had laid out the futon bed on the floor of the Japanese room.
He thought about his Futon Mouth Futon, down in Mar Vista, and actually felt homesick.
His wife runs the futon business now, which has so far managed to hover above bankruptcy.
She removed his shirt, his slacks, and then they clung together on the futon, his lips kissing hers.
Moonlight streamed through the window, illuminating two nude figures entwined on the futon, and an item that lay amid scattered clothing.
He retired to his bedchamber, where the futon, piled with soft quilts, offered an irresistible invitation to rest.
Eschewing the futon, he lay on the floor with his neck propped on a wooden headrest.
He pushed Jennifer off the right side of their futon and rolled to the left as a bullet seared his side and another ripped through his upper thigh.
Bullets had stitched the walls, smashing the framed Hokusai and Yoshitosi woodblocks hanging over the futon where Jennifer lay quiet and still as death, awash in a sea of blood.
And there was a large black futon on the floor to the rear of the cabin.
In these wild regions there are no kago or norimons to be had, and a pack-horse is the only conveyance, and yesterday, having abandoned my own saddle, I had the bad luck to get a pack-saddle with specially angular and uncompromising peaks, with a soaked and extremely unwashed futon on the top, spars, tackle, ridges, and furrows of the most exasperating description, and two nooses of rope to hold on by as the animal slid down hill on his haunches, or let me almost slide over his tail as he scrambled and plunged up hill.