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palliasse.

Noun
Setting
MEANING

A mattress or bedding sack filled with straw or similar material.

Use it for

rough historical bedding; a sack mattress in an old room; sleep on straw rather than a sprung bed; an austere interior conveyed through its furniture

Words that belong together

  • a straw palliasse
  • sleep on a palliasse
  • a rough palliasse

On the page

The palliasse crackled whenever she turned toward the shuttered window.
He found a palliasse beneath the stairs and no blanket beside it.

Nearby words

straw mattresspallet

Related words

paillasse (spelling variant)straw mattresspallet
Word forms
Base
palliasse

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular palliasse; plural palliasses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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