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spring mattress

British  

noun

  1. a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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At the time, I’m living at my mom’s house, on this spring mattress that’s sticking me in the back — but I’m turning down crazy money, because it just wasn’t the right thing.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

In the early days of the war, he and others were living at the ambulance station — sleeping on creaky spring mattress beds upstairs.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2022

An analogy is that of two heavy balls on a spring mattress, whereby the indentation in the mattress made by one of the balls produces an attractive region for the other ball.

From Nature • Aug. 27, 2019

“Sometimes you get a fancy casket that might have a spring mattress in there, or you could get a cardboard box.”

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2012

Left alone in the room assigned him, lying on a spring mattress that yielded unexpectedly at every movement of his arm or his leg, Levin did not fall asleep for a long while.

From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance