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Definition of Palliasse
1. Noun. Mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust.
Definition of Palliasse
1. n. See Paillasse.
Definition of Palliasse
1. Noun. (qualifier chiefly British) A thin mattress or under bed stuffed with straw. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Palliasse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palliasse
Literary usage of Palliasse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary of a French Private: War-imprisonment, 1914-1915 by Gaston Riou (1916)
"I HAVE A palliasse WHEN I went out at seven o'clock there was a mist. It had the
same smell, piquant and wholesome, as at Dully. The landscape was Japanese. ..."
2. Prisons and Reformatories at Home and Abroad: Being the Transactions of the by Edwin Pears (1872)
"Moreover, they ought to have, and they have, both a mattress and a palliasse.
These various articles, which are specified, with all the necessary details, ..."
3. The Stowe Catalogue: Priced and Annotated by Henry Rumsey Forster (1848)
"Hewitt 0 19 0 2673 A four-post bedstead, and furniture; a palliasse; ... 2681 A
truck-bedstead, and curtain; a palliasse; a feather-bed, bolster, ..."
4. Picciola, the Prisoner of Finestrella, Or, Captivity Captive by Xavier (1861)
"chimney and palliasse of the bed, to the linings of the coats of the prisoner;
while -Morand paced up and down the narrow chamber, tapping with his cane ..."
5. The Insurance Cyclopáedia: Being a Dictionary of the Definition of Terms by Cornelius Walford (1871)
"The fire, after having commenced in the tow or other contents at the under-side
of the mattress, thence burned downwards through the palliasse— the straw ..."
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