mattress

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They very seldom use feather-beds; but they lie upon a paillasse, or bag of straw, over which are laid two, and sometimes three mattrasses.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

The watchman rouses them from repose: and the annunciation of the hour of "two o'clock, and a moonlight morning," reminds them of their cotton night-caps and flock mattrasses.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Special orders call for stoves, mattrasses and blankets.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert

The expedition was fitted out with two days' provisions, tent, mattrasses, and pesks.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882

The neighbourhood of bad conductors, such as glass windows, not being open, and on a thick bed of mattrasses, are safe places.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry