palliasse

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French French paillasse, from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

One had crawled off one's straw palliasse weakly and shakily, and so won forth into a new, unfriendly world. — That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan
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. — Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant
The bed itself, with all the appurtenances of palliasse, mattresses, etc., was of far later date, and looked most incongruously comfortable; the casements, too, with their little diamond-shaped panes and iron binding, had given way to the modern heterodoxy of the sash-window. — Humorous Ghost Stories, Dorothy Scarborough

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