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trɪs noun
1.
a large pad for supporting the reclining body, used as or on a bed, consisting of a quilted or similarly fastened case, usually of heavy cloth, that contains hair, straw, cotton, foam rubber, etc., or a framework of metal springs.
2.
3.
a mat woven of brush, poles, or similar material, used to prevent erosion of the surface of dikes, jetties, embankments, dams, etc.
4.
a layer of concrete placed on bare ground, as to provide a footing; mat.
5.
a layer of any material used to cushion, protect, reinforce, or the like.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English materas < Old French < Italian materasso < Arabic maṭraḥ mat, cushion
1250–1300; Middle English materas < Old French < Italian materasso < Arabic maṭraḥ mat, cushion
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| —n | |
| 1. | a large flat pad with a strong cover, filled with straw, foam rubber, etc, and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or as part of a bed |
| 2. | Also called: Dutch mattress a woven mat of brushwood, poles, etc, used to protect an embankment, dyke, etc, from scour |
| 3. | Sometimes shortened to: mat a concrete or steel raft or slab used as a foundation or footing |
| 4. | a network of reinforcing rods or expanded metal sheeting, used in reinforced concrete |
| 5. | civil engineering another name for blinding |
| [C13: via Old French from Italian materasso, from Arabic almatrah place where something is thrown] | |
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Word Origin & History
mattress
late 13c., from O.Fr. materas, from It. materasso, from M.L. matracium, borrowed in Sicily from Arabic al-matrah "the cushion" (cf. Sp. almadraque "mattress"), lit. "the thing thrown down," from taraha "he threw (down)."
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Example sentences
After dark the bed bugs would emerge from his recliner and tattered box-spring mattress to feed on his blood.
Overflowing skips and perhaps a soiled mattress or two will decorate the stairwell.
They put me inside a mattress cover and then set it on fire.
Among the rich contents of the tomb there was a bier on which rested a mattress of reeds covered with three layers of linen.
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