Crossword clues for palliasse
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
alt. (qualifier chiefly British) A thin mattress or under bed stuffed with straw. n. (qualifier chiefly British) A thin mattress or under bed stuffed with straw.
WordNet
n. mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust [syn: paillasse]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "palliasse".
The tiny room contained only the space for a straw palliasse and a bahut chest made of iron and wood.
The stool scraped over to the palliasse and he thunked the bucket up on it.
Two stools, a rickety table, one palliasse, and nothing to make weapons with.
Soon she would crawl onto the palliasse with William and sleep, but for now she just wanted to sit and pray, with a fervor she had never suspected she was capable of.
No matter that she could never sleep, no matter that his snoring shook the palliasse, the blankets, and her.
She wallowed in this contrast of cold and heat, of pure animal comfort, and hard palliasse below with rough blankets above.
In the dim reddish glow of the fire I saw the large form of the woman stretched out on a palliasse before the hearth.
There was an ancient truckle-bed which was stripped bare and a thin straw palliasse on the floor.
Isbisters lent us some ragged sheets and blankets and the straw palliasse was made up for me.
Despite my protests, she laid an old straw palliasse in a corner of the cottage and the sight of it brought an immense yearning for rest upon me.
There were no articles of furniture or, indeed, any contents except a narrow palliasse of straw, a jug and a wooden platter containing some cold porage.
He felt beneath his palliasse, finding the wrapped book and the sigil inside his wallet just as he had left them.
In preparation, I had pulled the coverings tidily over the palliasse which passed as my mattress and swept the worst of the dust out on to the landing.
They pushed Sharpe into the wall, laying him on a thin, lumpy straw palliasse, and his head was in the low space where the brick arch met the floor.
Teresa was there, but he did not remember that dream, and he did not know that he dreamed of La Marquesa, and the dusk turned to darkness, night in Salamanca, and it should have been his last night in the wide black-curtained bed and he moaned on the palliasse and Connelley, half drunk, called in his sing-song voice for him to die well.