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Definition of 'palliasse'English
Alternative forms
* paillasse
Noun
( en-noun)
(qualifier) A thin mattress or under bed stuffed with straw.
* 1895 , , The Stark Munro Letters , ch. 12,
- Out I sallied and spent sixteen shillings of it upon a new palliasse which should go under the straw mattress upon my bed.
* 1979 — .
- First Hiker.'' Not even a straw mattress to cling to?
''Rosenstock. Not even a palliasse .
References
* " palliasse " at OneLook® Dictionary Search .
* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
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