| 词汇 | mattress |
| 词源 | mattress. In medieval times Arabs often slept on plush cush- ions thrown on the floor. The Arabic word matrah, “the place where something is thrown,” came to mean a cushion or mat in Arabic and eventually passed into English as materas, the an- cestor of our word mattress, when the Crusaders brought this custom of sleeping on cushions home to Europe. |
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