10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PALLIASSE»
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palliasse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Prisons and Reformatories at Home and Abroad: Being the ...
bed of each able-bodied prisoner is composed of an iron bedstead, a mattress, or
palliasse, a bolster, two sheets, and one coverlet in summer, and two in winter.
While the above-enumerated articles are of somewhat larger dimensions and a ...
2
The Stowe catalogue: priced and annotated
Hewitt A four-post bedstead, and furniture; a palliasse; and a mattrass Mold A
feather-bed, bolster, and pillow . . Hon. R. Cavendish Three blankets, and 9.
coverlid . . . . Summeifield SERVANTS' ROOMS, No. 5. A four-post bedstead, and
...
Henry Rumsey Forster, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos (Duke of),
1848
3
The War Behind the Wire
So we loaded up a palliasse with an assortment of kit, food and things and put
the plan into operation. I was lying under the palliasse on top Of the beds. It
worked without a hitch until somebody, who knew Tony Rolt was an escaper,
came ...
4
A Vatican Lifeline '44: Allied Fugitives aided by the ...
I sat on the palliasse and removed my jacket. Breaking a few stitches in five
places in the lining, I pushed through each small opening one of the 1000 lire
notes and with one finger flattened them out inside the lining. The Germans had
handed ...
Buteau, who was determined to make an end of the matter, now set fire to the
palliasse in spite of his wife's protestations. Fortunately the room was so damp
that the straw burnt very slowly, giving out, however, such a dense and copious ...
Emile Zola, Andrew Moore,
2008
6
Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On ...
/pajas, pajas paI/ (<E palliasse, paillasse < Fr paillasse 'mattress filled with straw')
= straw mattress ◊ I was protected by the palliasse. (POSG 19 Mar 1850:2) ◊
Piassepaille – a straw bed. (ESTT 1956) pallu pallu n The border end part of a ...
7
Gobbledygook: A Dictionary That's 2/3 Accurate, 1/3 Nonsense ...
wentus,. palliasse,. quarrion. wentus (WHEN-tuss) (noun): A needle-shaped ship,
used by blockade runners during the American Civil War. The word is a corrupted
form of the Latin “ventus,” which means wind. 2. palliasse (puh-LEE-as) ...
8
Not All of Us Were Brave
Since orders were for us to remain there all night, I went nosing around the area
on the hunt for something more comfortable to lie on than soggy ground and
found myself a rush-filled palliasse. Although it was fairly comfortable, its
drawback ...
“Right lads, pick up a palliasse.?” “What's a palliasse? It sounds very rude to me, I
wonder if its something to do with giants being friendly?” “No, it's nowt to do with
giant's arses,” says Tommy “It's these bags that we will sleep on, I suppose we ...
10
The Golden Age (Czech Literature Series)
On its floor there is a palliasse, its rotting straw poking out at several places, and
cinders in a grate. (The smoke leaves the cabin through a black-edged hole in
the roof.) Having laid himself down on the palliasse, Fo watches the woods grow
...
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PALLIASSE»
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palliasse is used in the context of the following news items.
Evacuated with a tin of corned beef and six Oxo cubes
Apart from two blankets, a palliasse (straw mattress), clothes and a gas mask, each had to pack a 12oz tin of corned beef, a packet of Abernethy ... «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»
Remembering steam trains and straw-filled mattresses
The fun of it was taking your palliasse outside and stuffing it full of straw which some kind farmer had donated. I cannot remember but I think we ... «Timaru Herald, Apr 15»
Diary of a 1950s housewife
The best she ever had were during the war and made of army palliasse covers. She considers putting the good bits from the backs of the chairs ... «Yorkshire Post, Feb 15»
'Sniper shot our major in the leg'
“I remember the sergeant bellowing at us: 'Get yourself a palliasse!' We had to fill our own bag with straw to sleep on. I had never left home ... «Biggleswade Today, Jan 15»
A tribute to the Land Girls of the Second World War
“The sleeping arrangements were spartan to say the least, mine was the top bunk, wooden slats and about two inches of strawfilled palliasse in ... «Express.co.uk, Feb 13»
Enemy at our door
His new home was a tent, his bed a palliasse, a straw-stuffed mattress: "You didn't expect inner springs." At night Watt manned a machine-gun ... «New Zealand Herald, Dec 11»
Real lives: 'That anyone survived Auschwitz is a miracle. Yet I am here'
They were put to work for gruelling 12-hour shifts, but had individual beds, a straw palliasse, a spoon, access to a toilet with a door. And there ... «Daily Mail, Aug 11»
Britain at War: We gasped for breath and reeled about, wishing we …
Quarters for us were Nissen huts without beds or, during the week 'off', sleeping on 6-inch high trestle boards with a straw-filled 'palliasse' in a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 09»