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- noun Plural form of
matrass .
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Examples
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Turn on the laundry, unfold the matrasses, put all the strange attributes back in the attic.
a day at home nathreee 2008
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The military trucks were loaded with stolen things, including household appliances, beds, matrasses.
Goodbye Russia 2008
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I wonder, Dick, you did not put me in mind of sending for my own matrasses —
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It is made up of small tubes, within each of which is a substance, which exactly resembles that of the baken hair with which we stuff chairs, matrasses, etc, etc. and which answers pretty well with a very little trouble and no cost.
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I remember vividly how, when permitted to be present, we boys followed him about silently and on tiptoe; how we would watch the mysterious experiments; with what awe his furnaces and chauffers, his sand-baths, matrasses, and alembics, and his precipitations filled us.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903
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The whole of the rather large room was full of glass bottles with long necks twined round glass tubes of a duck - beak shape, retorts, resembling chubby cheeks out of which came noses like trumpets, crucibles, cupels, matrasses, cucurbits and vases of all forms.
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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A velvet skull-cap perched on one side of his head, his sleeves turned up, a brown holland apron tied round his neck and his waist, a feather brush in his hand, he had proceeded at once to examine his precious stock in detail -- his furnaces, his long-necked, big-bellied matrasses, the curved necks and the tubulures of his retorts, his cucurbits, and his alembics.
Samuel Brohl and Company Victor Cherbuliez 1864
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Its qualities, however, are such, that it is capable of being manufactured into cloth, and in that country is very useful, and much used in making a kind of cushion for seats and matrasses, or beds
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The military trucks were loaded with stolen things, including household appliances, beds, matrasses.
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The military trucks were loaded with stolen things, including household appliances, beds, matrasses.
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