English

Alternative forms

• paillasse

Noun

palliasse ‎(plural palliasses)

1. (chiefly, British) A thin mattress or under bed stuffed with straw.
   • 1895, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters, ch. 12,

     Out I sallied and spent sixteen shillings of it upon a new palliasse which should go under the straw mattress upon my bed.

   • 1979 — Tom Stoppard. Undiscovered Country.

     First Hiker. Not even a straw mattress to cling to?
     Rosenstock. Not even a palliasse.

References

• "palliasse" at OneLook® Dictionary Search.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• paillasse

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: palliasses, palliassent

Verb

palliasse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of pallier