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paillasse

or 貹·

[ pal-yas, pal-yas, pal-ee-as, pal-ee-as ]

noun

  1. Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.


paillasse

/ ˈpælɪˌæs; ˌpælɪˈæs /

noun

  1. a variant spelling (esp US) of palliasse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of paillasse1

1500–10; < French < Italian pagliaccio straw pallet, equivalent to pagli ( a ) straw (< Latin palea chaff ) + -accio pejorative noun suffix
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Example Sentences

Though you and all your own family may like to sleep hard, your guests may find it difficult to sleep at all on a mattrass with a paillasse under it.

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Every two persons shall have a mattress, a paillasse, two blankets, three pair of new sheets, two coats each, six shirts, four pair of shoes, and one capote.

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He put one n in innuendo, and the i after the lls in paillasse.

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He sprang with one bound to the paillasse, and withdrew from it the stiffened form of an infant four years old, dead and cold.

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She put three peas on the young lady's paillasse, and over them a large feather-bed, and then another, then another—in fact, fifteen feather-beds.

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