Crossword clues for paillasse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paillasse \Pail*lasse"\ (?; F. ?), n. [F., fr. paille straw. See Pallet a bed.] An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also palliasse.]
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly British English) An under bed or mattress of straw.
WordNet
n. mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust [syn: palliasse]
Usage examples of "paillasse".
At dawn, and from hour to hour throughout the day, I went to see him where he sprawled on a paillasse on the floor, like some redhaired stricken beast, with out-stretched limbs, convulsed by spasms which displaced the dirty blanket that covered him.
They turned the corner and found a wool carder, crying in a loud voice that this was their last chance for mattresses and paillasses, to sleep warm, and not freeze like the Baby Jesus, and next to him a waterman was shouting, and as they continued along the streets, still roughly laid out, they could see doorways where a carpenter was working his plane, and over there a smith striking his anvil in a festival of sparks, and farther on another man taking loaves from an oven that glowed like the mouth of Hell.