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Palliasse

noun
1.
Mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust.  Synonym: paillasse.





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"Palliasse" Quotes from Famous Books



... slept. The ground was hard, and it got very cold about 2 A.M. I could hear the sergeant-major snoring comfortably on the straw palliasse he had managed to "commandeer" for himself. At about 3 A.M. my ear caught the "chug-chug" of a motor-cycle. It came nearer and then stopped, and I heard the rider and our sentry talking. I got up and found it was ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)


Words linked to "Palliasse" :   mattress


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