creature comforts

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plural noun

things that contribute to bodily comfort and ease, as food, warmth, a comfortable bed, hot water for bathing, etc.

Origin of creature comforts

First recorded in 1650–60

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Related Words for creature comforts

fare, amenities, conveniences

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Historical Examples of creature comforts

All thoughts as to creature-comforts were over with her now for ever.
The Eustace Diamonds
Anthony Trollope
Tobacco-fumes exuded from the key-hole, and I doubt not other creature-comforts lent the muddled man their aid.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper
So far as creature-comforts are concerned, the traveller is practically in London.
Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea.
Anonymous
They had it fitted up with a bed, and other “creature-comforts” of a truly Crusoe-like description.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847
Various
But instead, as the price of obedience to a will outside their own, they had received a thousand creature-comforts.
Is civilization a disease?
Stanton Coit

British Dictionary definitions for creature comforts

creature comforts

pl n

material things or luxuries that help to provide for one's bodily comfort

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creature comforts in Culture

creature comforts

The basic physical things that make life pleasant — good food, warm clothing, etc.: “The poor frequently lack the creature comforts the rest of us take for granted.”