"La paillasse" is a sack full of straw, a straw mattress, fairly rough, so ... no feeling of coziness here!.    From Wordnik.com.  [la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day] Reference

The word "paillasse" comes from “la paille” = 'straw'.    From Wordnik.com.  [la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day] Reference

By the way, there is another informal word for 'bed' -- “la paillasse”.    From Wordnik.com.  [la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day] Reference

In an informal way, you can say: "aller au plumard", but you never say “aller à la paillasse”.    From Wordnik.com.  [la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day] Reference

In an informal way, you can say: "aller au plumard", but you never say “aller à la paillasse”.    From Wordnik.com.  [la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day] Reference

"La paillasse" is a sack full of straw, a straw mattress, fairly rough, so... no feeling of coziness here!.    From Wordnik.com.  [la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Without warning, he slammed the incandescent metal against the corrupt shoulder, pinning McKeag to the paillasse as he did so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial]

They very seldom use feather-beds; but they lie upon a paillasse, or bag of straw, over which are laid two, and sometimes three mattrasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

Hassan, wearied with his journey, hastily swallowed his supper, and, stretching himself upon a paillasse, soon forgot his calamities in sound repose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference

Her bedroom furniture is even more scanty -- a paillasse on trestles, a chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Town Life in Australia] Reference

The next moment she had pushed it between the paillasse and mattress of Susy's bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children of Wilton Chase] Reference

They lie in straw-lofts, in woody brakes; rudest paillasse on the floor of a secret friend is luxury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

Yes! and there, opposite to her and immediately beneath that semblance of a window, was another paillasse, and on it something dark, that moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elusive Pimpernel] Reference

I pay twelve shillings a day for S - and self, without a sitting-room, and my bed is a straw paillasse; but the food is plentiful, and not very bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from the Cape] Reference

It was composed of a simple quilted paillasse extended on a plank; no sheets, but a prison coverlet of grey wool, a sack of straw instead of pillows.    From Wordnik.com.  [En Route] Reference

When the four chairs appeared fairly steady, and in comparatively little danger of toppling, he dragged the paillasse forward and propped it up against the chairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elusive Pimpernel] Reference

With that she bangs open the window, and before I recover from my surprise, launches forth, with a loud whir, mattrass and all, leaving me, Pilgarlic, lying on the paillasse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference

"When the children had gone, they brought you in here, mon enfant, and laid you on the paillasse where Felicite used to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elusive Pimpernel] Reference

Yon paillasse sé fai main bien.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

"To search my paillasse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Une fille du régent. English] Reference

The two mattresses, paillasse, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference