Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin mattress filled with straw or sawdust.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun Originally, a straw bed; in modern upholstery, an under-mattress.
- noun A garment trimmed, with plaited straw sewed on like galloon or passement: women's dresses were so ornamented about 1785.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An under bed or mattress of straw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chiefly UK An under bed or
mattress ofstraw .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"La paillasse" is a sack full of straw, a straw mattress, fairly rough, so ... no feeling of coziness here!
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The word "paillasse" comes from “la paille” = 'straw'.
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The word "paillasse" comes from “la paille” = 'straw'.
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In an informal way, you can say: "aller au plumard", but you never say “aller à la paillasse” ...
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By the way, there is another informal word for 'bed' -- “la paillasse”.
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By the way, there is another informal word for 'bed' -- “la paillasse”.
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In an informal way, you can say: "aller au plumard", but you never say “aller à la paillasse”...
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"La paillasse" is a sack full of straw, a straw mattress, fairly rough, so... no feeling of coziness here!
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Richard was not away five minutes, but returned with an exclamation of disgust, threw himself on the paillasse, lit a cigar, and opened a bottle of
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The beds commonly used in this place, and all over Italy, consist of a paillasse, with one or two mattrasses, laid upon planks, supported by two wooden benches.
qms commented on the word paillasse
The shepherd's in distress, alas!
By day he's still lacking a lass
But he'll not eschew
A flirtatious ewe
To warm his lonely paillasse.
January 22, 2015