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Straw mattress
Answer for the clue "Straw mattress ", 9 letters:
paillasse
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust [syn: palliasse ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly British English) An under bed or mattress of straw.
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.