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plural palliasses
(chiefly, British) A thin mattress or under bed stuffed with straw. quotations examples
Out I sallied and spent sixteen shillings of it upon a new palliasse which should go under the straw mattress upon my bed.
1895, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 12, in The Stark Munro Letters
First Hiker. Not even a straw mattress to cling to? Rosenstock. Not even a palliasse.
1979, Tom Stoppard. Undiscovered Country., (Please provide the book title or journal name)