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straw mattress

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meanings of strawand mattress


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straw
noun
uk /strɔː/ us /strɑː/
the dried, yellow stems of crops such as wheat, used as food for animals or as a layer on the ground for animals to lie on, and for making ...
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mattress
noun[C]
uk /ˈmæt.rəs/ us /ˈmæt.rəs/
the part of a bed, made of a strong cloth cover filled with firm material, that makes the bed comfortable to ...
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Examples of straw mattress


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I found out that it hid all the bread it received underneath its strawmattress.
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Surely it is a small thing to ask that the authorities should be compelled to provide at least a strawmattress, which can very easily be cleaned.
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Her cell, while airy and larger than the others, was sparsely furnished with a strawmattress, table, wash basin, chair, and a bucket.
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He reconstitutes the environment of the epoch - the straw mattresses, the retorts, the lighting.
They had walked on foot with their teachers, carrying their books for 1,000 miles, and there they were, sleeping in wooden huts on straw mattresses.
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We had straw mattresses on the concrete, few clothes and one thin blanket.
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My information does not bear out the suggestion that sick men are allowed to lie on dirty straw mattresses, and everything possible is being done to provide necessaries and comforts.
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He himself stuffed straw mattresses with straw and sewed them.
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About 150 were crammed into one barrack, where the prisoners slept on multi-tiered bunks with straw mattresses.
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Rooms were originally designed for no more than 38 people, but frequently housed over 50 inmates sleeping in three-tier bunk beds on straw mattresses.
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They slept in cold wooden barracks with straw mattresses or just on bare wood during a winter that was exceptionally cold.
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The building originally housed a bucket, ankle chains, and straw mattresses.
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The brothers were put in the barn, where they slept on straw mattresses.
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Fire spread quickly as straw mattresses caught fire, trapping some prisoners and causing others to jump off the roof in an attempt to escape the fire.
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The dormitory is a large (c. 46 x 11 m), undecorated hall without any partitions for the monks, who, initially slept on straw mattresses lying on the floor.
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