Definitions for palliasse

palliasse pal·liasse

Spelling: [pal-yas, pal-yas, pal-ee-as, pal-ee-as
IPA: /pælˈyæs, ˈpæl yæs, ˌpæl iˈæs, ˈpæl iˌæs/

Palliasse is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in palliasse (aaeillpss).

Definitions for palliasse

noun

  1. paillasse.
  2. Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.

Origin of palliasse

1500-10; French Italian pagliaccio straw pallet, equivalent to pagli(a) straw (Latin palea chaff) + -accio pejorative noun suffix

Examples for palliasse

Then we went to bed—to palliasse rather, for two big bags filled with straw were laid down for us, and we turned in, or rather on.

Otherwise he was like a log: carried from his palliasse on which he slept at night to the armchair in which he sat all day.

Very probably the captain of your company would turn out of his bed and take your palliasse if you asked him nicely.

He soon left off sweeping his room, and never tried to move the palliasse off his bed.

So Akela curled up on someone's palliasse, and silence fell.

Brotteaux stretched himself on the palliasse and blew out the candle.

Akela is sitting on a palliasse already occupied by two people.

The Stable having been duly invited, its eight occupants come in, and each finds a place on a palliasse.

One of us made shift with a palliasse, while Genevive and I slept on a hair mattress.

That night he slept on a palliasse of straw, with a pillow consisting of a thin bolster propped on his outer clothes.

Word Value for palliasse
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