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
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I pay twelve shillings a day for S- and self, without a sitting-room, and my bed is a straw paillasse; but the food is plentiful, and not very bad.
From Letters from the Cape by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon
"I shall wait now for the daylight before I go back to work," said the lapidary, seating himself beside his wife's paillasse, and leaning his forehead upon his two hands.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
I turned in terror to see my paillasse in the clutches of four men who were apparently rending it in as many directions.
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
The first thing the whiskery Belgian did was to grab his paillasse and stand guard over it.
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
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
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