sheetless
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a word derived from
sheet.
sheetnouna large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
Example Sentences
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DeMarco crawls into his bed – a sheetless mattress on the floor – to conduct the interview.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2015
Just a sheetless mattress, a bunched fishing net, a pile of dirty clothing, a solitary spoon on a banister.
From Washington Post
His bed was a thin, hard, sheetless mattress, laid on planks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Abbott led an aimless life of twelve-hour shifts at $4 an hour and spent hot nights on tired, sheetless mattresses in lonely bunkhouses a hundred miles from nowhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I lay wakeful in the hard, sheetless bed.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst