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mattress
mattress:
[13] Etymologically, a
mattress
is something ‘thrown’ down on the floor to lie on. The word comes via Old French
materas
and Italian
materasso
from Arabic
matrah
‘mat, cushion’, a derivative of the verb
taraha
‘throw’.