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What is a palliasse?

What is a palliasse? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chiefly, British) A thin mattress or under bed stuffed with straw.
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The Stable having been duly invited, its eight occupants come in, and each finds a place on a palliasse.
Akela is sitting on a palliasse already occupied by two people.
Brotteaux stretched himself on the palliasse and blew out the candle.
That night, Liz relaxed into the old palliasse and pulled the thin sheets over her on the bed in her room, that first night away from home.
That night he slept on a palliasse of straw, with a pillow consisting of a thin bolster propped on his outer clothes.
He soon left off sweeping his room, and never tried to move the palliasse off his bed.

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