- a variation of matrass.
mattrass
Britishnoun
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In this work I was busied till near eleven p.m., with but few converts, however, to my convictions, when, worn down by fatigue, I stretched myself on my mattrass.
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Sarah Anne Curzon
We got the mattrass down the back stairs, unperceived, and I helped to carry it, taking with me all the money I had, and what I could borrow from my sister.
From Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The prospectus said also that bed-clothes were supplied to us, and these were already in the bunks—it said mattrass, pillow, sheets, and blanket.
From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Weitemeyer
Though you and all your own family may like to sleep hard, your guests may find it difficult to sleep at all on a mattrass with a paillasse under it.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie
She lay upon a mattrass, propped up with a pile of cushions, in a lower apartment of the palace.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various
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