mattrass

English

Noun

mattrass (plural mattrasses)

1. Archaic form of mattress.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood!