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bedspring

American  
[bed-spring] / ˈbɛdˌsprɪŋ /

noun

  1. a set of springs for the support of a mattress.


Etymology

Origin of bedspring

First recorded in 1910–15; bed + spring


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The earliest mention in print of the words “American dream” appears to have been in a 1930 ad for a $13.50 marked-down bedspring from a U.S. mattress company.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

Domino left school at the age of 14 to work in a bedspring factory by day, and play in bars by night.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2017

Outside, a broken bedspring sat between torn bags of cement, a promise of construction that was never realized.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2015

Instead of noodling away on vintage Strats, the primary instruments at their disposal were a zither and a bedspring in a box, played with a bow, processed through a modular synthesizer to distort the sound.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2013

In the daytime, the girl was no more than a creaking bedspring, a patter of footsteps overhead.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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