Mattress

Mattress

A mattress is a manufactured product or improvised arrangement to sleep or lie on, consisting of resilient materials and sometimes covered with an outer fabric or ticking. It may consist of a quilted or similarly fastened case, usually of heavy cloth, that contains hair, straw, cotton, foam rubber, or a framework of metal springs. In parts of the Western world a mattress typically belongs to a bed set and is placed upon a foundation.

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Famous quotes containing the word mattress:

    Well, you look so pretty in it
    Honey, can I jump on it sometime?
    Yes, I just wanna see
    If it’s really that expensive kind
    You know it balances on your head
    Just like a mattress balances
    On a bottle of wine
    Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat.
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

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    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)