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Palliasse

noun
1.
Mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust.  Synonym: paillasse.






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"Palliasse" Quotes from Famous Books



... Duke of Aumont held them both back, saying, "Gentlemen, we must wait for the king's orders." Orders came to arrest them both, and confine them in a small room over the council-chamber. They had "eggs, bread, wine from the king's cellar, their breviaries, their night-gowns, a palliasse, and a mattress," brought to them there; and they were kept under ocular supervision for four and twenty hours. The Cardinal of Guise was released the next morning, but only to be put to death like his brother. The king spared the Archbishop ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume IV. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot



Words linked to "Palliasse" :   mattress, paillasse



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