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Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: materas, from Arabic matrah 'place where something is thrown'

mattress

 noun
     
mattress
Related topics: Furniture
mat‧tress [countable]
DHF the soft part of a bed that you lie on
firm/soft/hard etc mattress
an old, lumpy mattress
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