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paillasse
(redirected from palliasse)

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palliase
In masonry, a supporting bed.


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An 86-year-old man named Mickey Kavanagh told me many years ago how he had been collared by Hickey at the age of eight, after setting fire to a palliasse in Richmond Row.
Each man was issued with his blankets and sufficient straw to fill a palliasse.
Then -- and it's here that the dresser comes into its own -- at bedtime all you have to do is put down a few straw palliasses on the floor, behind the dresser, for the girls and grandmother to sleep on -- private like.
 
 
 
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