paillasse
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of paillasse
1500–10; < French < Italian pagliaccio straw pallet, equivalent to pagli ( a ) straw (< Latin palea chaff ) + -accio pejorative noun suffix
Example Sentences
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Her bedroom furniture is even more scanty--a paillasse on trestles, a chair, a half-crown looking-glass, an old jug and a basin on a wooden table.
From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny
Strutted to and fro, kicked the cabinet, flashed an electric torch, and walked up the room examining each paillasse to make sure it had an occupant.
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
About midnight he heard something which came into the room, and in a moment turned the bed upside down, covering the captain and the soldier with the mattress and paillasse.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
"It's where you put it this morning, atween the mattress and the paillasse, and I had the greatest work keeping mother's hands off it, for she was bent on making the bed all over again."
From The Children of Wilton Chase by L. T. Meade
Every two persons shall have a mattress, a paillasse, two blankets, three pair of new sheets, two coats each, six shirts, four pair of shoes, and one capote.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Samuel de Champlain
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