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palliasse

[ UK /pˈælɪˌæs/ ]
NOUN
  1. mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust

How To Use palliasse In A Sentence

  • Double tier wooden bunks have been placed in the various rooms, with a palliasse and two blankets per man. Work Camp 10049 GW
  • 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.
  • Barely stretched on his palliasse he had been routed out to attend to Long Jim, who had missed his footing and pitched into a shaft. Australia Felix
  • They pushed Sharpe into the wall, laying him on a thin, lumpy straw palliasse, and his head was in the low space where the brick arch met the floor. Sharpe's Sword
  • He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio. Australia Felix
  • He hid the wallet with the sigil under his palliasse, which was closest to the outer door so he could sneak out easily at night, then went down the corridor to the necessarium. Conqueror's Moon
  • 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.
  • The double tiered wooden bunks have a palliasse and one blanket per man. Work Camp 10030 GW, Lavamund
  • 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.
  • The interior arrangements of the cubicles usually consist of beds of the double tier wooden slatted type, palliasses and two or three blankets supplied by the Retaining Power. Red Cross Report
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