The word is possibly identical with an old name matrass (Fr.

The dirty sublimate being taken off, aurum mosaicum was found at the bottom of the matrass.

A matrass (mod.

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

We got the mattrass down the back stairs, unperceived, and I helped to carry it, taking with me all the money I had, and what I could borrow from my sister.

She assisted me to tie up the mattrass; I discovering, at the same time, that one blanket would serve me till winter, could I persuade my sister, who slept with me, to keep my secret.