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creature comforts

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creature comforts
pl n
material things or luxuries that help to provide for one's bodily comfort
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Noun1.creature comfortscreature comforts - things that make you comfortable and at ease; "all the comforts of home"
amenities, comforts, conveniences
bread and butter, keep, livelihood, sustenance, living, support - the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
Translations
creature comforts
pl → leibliches Wohl
creature comforts npl → comodità fpl
creature comforts npl → comodità fpl


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No enjoyments have greater zest than these, snatched in the very midst of difficulty and danger; and it is probable the poor wayworn and weather- beaten travellers relished these creature comforts the more highly from the surrounding desolation, and the dangerous proximity of the Crows.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
He was too philosophic and simple to be vindictive, and he lived too much in the world of mind to miss the creature comforts we were giving up.
The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context
The store of creature comforts was not the chief part of the visitor's reception.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
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