box spring
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A box spring, leaning on its side against the open door of an empty refrigerator, blocked one corner of the room.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2023
To minimize exposure, use dust-mite covers for your pillows, mattress, box spring and duvets.
From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2022
She likes the SureGuard Mattress Encasement for both mattress and box spring.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2021
The boudoir here has no four-poster bed or even a headboard, just a single mattress on a box spring with an unstable pile of books nearby.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2020
Back then it was the closest thing she’d ever had to a love letter; for months she had slept with the book under her pillow, and later, slipped it between her mattress and box spring.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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