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Futon

2 stages from Japanese to English.

Today it means a padded mattress, often on a low folding wooden frame
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Stage 1 of 2
futon
Japanese · medieval
"a padded sleeping mattress"
a thin padded mattress rolled out for sleeping and stored away by day
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Stage 2 of 2
futon
English · 1970s
"a padded mattress on a low frame"
adopted for the low wooden-framed bed popularized in the West
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