paillasse

NOUN
  1. mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust
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How To Use paillasse In A Sentence

  • In an informal way, you can say: "aller au plumard", but you never say “aller à la paillasse” ... La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day
  • La paillasse" is a sack full of straw, a straw mattress, fairly rough, so ... no feeling of coziness here! La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day
  • La paillasse" is a sack full of straw, a straw mattress, fairly rough, so... no feeling of coziness here! La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day
  • Any intelligent foam mattress and polyurethane paillasse is available in separate thickness and, additionally, denseness.
  • The beds commonly used in this place, and all over Italy, consist of a paillasse, with one or two mattrasses, laid upon planks, supported by two wooden benches. Travels through France and Italy
  • In an informal way, you can say: "aller au plumard", but you never say “aller à la paillasse”... La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day
  • But this proves to be the note of Paillasse, a merry-andrew. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828
  • Howard Adams has recalled: ‘In all the twenty years I spent in my halfbreed home, a bed was known as a paillasse.
  • By the way, there is another informal word for 'bed' -- “la paillasse”. La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day
  • Richard was not away five minutes, but returned with an exclamation of disgust, threw himself on the paillasse, lit a cigar, and opened a bottle of The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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