What is "palliasses"

Usage examples of "palliasses".

This meant that when the candle burned low enough, it would burn through the thread and fall all the way to the floor and into a ragged trail of straw that led to a pile of palliasses on which had been stood two ancient cans of lamp oil.

Then piling up all the rest of the furniture, the mattresses, palliasses and chairs, he stopped up the windows as one does when assailed by an enemy.

Talann, finally even her and then she wiped away the provisions, the ragged palliasses shipping pallets that made the dry-slatted floor, then the lamps hung from the pegs on the walls, as well as the light they cast.