palliasse
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palliasse (plural palliasses)
- (chiefly, British) A thin mattress or under bed stuffed with straw.
- 1895, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 12, in The Stark Munro Letters:
- Out I sallied and spent sixteen shillings of it upon a new palliasse which should go under the straw mattress upon my bed.
- 1979, Tom Stoppard. Undiscovered Country., (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- First Hiker. Not even a straw mattress to cling to?
Rosenstock. Not even a palliasse.
- 1969, Dad's Army S03E02 You see that pile of straw over there? With it you stuff your palliasse.
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- “palliasse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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palliasse