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Definition of palliasse in English: palliasse(also paillasse) noun ˈpalɪasˌpæliˈæs A straw mattress. 草荐 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Howard Adams has recalled: ‘In all the twenty years I spent in my halfbreed home, a bed was known as a paillasse.
- The ground in our particular spot is very hard & after our palliasses in Trentham & on the boat we all find it rather uncomfortable at present.
- There were two chamber pots between 1000 men and there were 4 kilometres of corridors along which the wounded, sick and dying lay on straw palliasses, their filthy greatcoats their only blanket.
- Any intelligent foam mattress and polyurethane paillasse is available in separate thickness and, additionally, denseness.
OriginEarly 16th century (originally Scots): from French paillasse, based on Latin palea 'straw'. Definition of palliasse in US English: palliasse(also paillasse) nounˌpæliˈæsˌpalēˈas A straw mattress. 草荐 Example sentencesExamples - Any intelligent foam mattress and polyurethane paillasse is available in separate thickness and, additionally, denseness.
- 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.
- There were two chamber pots between 1000 men and there were 4 kilometres of corridors along which the wounded, sick and dying lay on straw palliasses, their filthy greatcoats their only blanket.
- Howard Adams has recalled: ‘In all the twenty years I spent in my halfbreed home, a bed was known as a paillasse.
- The ground in our particular spot is very hard & after our palliasses in Trentham & on the boat we all find it rather uncomfortable at present.
OriginEarly 16th century (originally Scots): from French paillasse, based on Latin palea ‘straw’. |