Noun: matrass
| Singular | matrass |
| Plural | matrasses |
Sample Sentences
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So the learn’d Alchemist exulting sees / Rise in his bright matrass Diana’s trees […]. [1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 206:]
Nouns inflected like matrass
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
From Anglo-Norman matraz (“shaft, dart”), Middle French materas, from an unattested post-classical variant of Latin mataris, materis (“Gaulish throwing-spear”), from a Gaulish language. See: Latin Nouns '
mataris'.