Paillasse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thin mattress filled with straw or sawdust.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An under bed or mattress of straw.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An under bed or mattress of straw.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Originally, a straw bed; in modern upholstery, an under-mattress.
  • n. A garment trimmed, with plaited straw sewed on like galloon or passement: women's dresses were so ornamented about 1785.
  • n. A buffoon whose costume was generally striped like the ticking or stuff of which the covering of a mattress is made, whence the name: a character assumed by masqueraders.
  • n. A solid bed of masonry, as for the floor of an oven or furnace; by extension, any pedestal or base-block built of masonry if of considerable dimensions.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mattress   
    Cross Reference
    pallet   
    Variant
    palliasse   
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