creature comforts
things that contribute to bodily comfort and ease, as food, warmth, a comfortable bed, hot water for bathing, etc.
Origin of creature comforts
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How to use creature comforts in a sentence
Pillay used the 747 to deliver creature comforts, particularly for business travelers, that were previously unheard of.
Surrounded by all these creature comforts, I should be in a soldierly state of bliss.
Money and creature comforts take a back seat to expressing your soul in a meaningful way.
Travel in the PRC will yield the most exciting and uncomfortable emotions; be sure not to miss a few creature comforts.
In the creature comforts provided at Ballinasloe the working staff was not forgotten.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
Then I realize that it is possible to feel that creature comforts are not matters of first importance.
Heroes of To-Day | Mary R. ParkmanHe thanked God for all the 'creature comforts' there were upon the table—for all there ever had been—for all that was expected.
Lincolniana | Andrew AdderupBut it is not to the Mississippi toddies and other creature comforts of America that I look back with gratitude and affection.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections | William ArcherMr Pratt was too fond of his creature comforts to drive twenty miles through a damp and clinging mist.
The Pagan's Cup | Fergus Hume
British Dictionary definitions for creature comforts
material things or luxuries that help to provide for one's bodily comfort
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
Cultural definitions for 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.”
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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