paillasse

• palliasse

From French, from paille (“straw”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pælˈjɑːs/, /ˈpæljæs/, /ˌpælɪˈɑːs/, /ˈpælɪˌæs/

paillasse (plural paillasses)

1. (chiefly Britain) An under bed or mattress of straw.
   • 1908, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Elusive Pimpernel, ch. 29,

     He served the Republic in comfort and ease, and had slept soundly on his paillasse in the little garret allotted to him in the Town Hall.

• pallet

• paillasse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• palliasse

• IPA^(key): /pa.jas/

paille (“straw”) +‎ -asse

paillasse f (plural paillasses)

1. paillasse, straw mattress
2. laboratory desk

paillasse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of pailler

From Italian pagliaccio, from paglia (“straw”), from Latin palea.

paillasse m (plural paillasses)

1. clown, buffoon

• → Alemannic German: Pajass, Bajass

• “paillasse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).