Noun: mattress
| Singular | mattress |
| Plural | mattresses |
Sample Sentences
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Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring. [1941 April, “British Locomotive Developments”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 173:]
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The boiler and firebox are lagged with a lightweight Fibreglass mattress. [1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:]
Nouns inflected like mattress
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Arabic طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa)
3. Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ)bor.
4. Old French matrasbor.
5. Middle English materas
6. English mattress
7. From Middle English materas, from Old French matras, from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”). Compare divan, from Persian via Turkish (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans). See: Middle English Nouns '
materas'.
Verbs referencing "mattress"
Galician Nouns
almadraque, Portuguese Nouns
almadraque.