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palliasse
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pal·liasse  (pl-ys, plys)
n.
Variant of paillasse.
palliasse esp US, paillasse [ˈpælɪˌæs ˌpælɪˈæs]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a straw-filled mattress; pallet
[from French paillasse, from Italian pagliaccio, ultimately from Latin palea pallet1]
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Noun1.palliasse - mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust
paillasse
mattress - a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
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palliasse
n → Strohsack m
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Then -- and it's here that the dresser comes into its own -- at bedtime all you have to do is put down a few straw palliasses on the floor, behind the dresser, for the girls and grandmother to sleep on -- private like.
saturday THOUGHT by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
There was an iron army issue bedstead, and three 'biscuits', some regulation palliasses, stuffed with straw, and the usual bedding, though, for someone accustomed to the heat of Aden, the blankets were a surprise, a welcome one, as it turned out.
A CHRISTMAS GHOST by Ramsay, Allan / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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