Pallet (furniture)
A pallet is a bed made of straw or hay, used in medieval times. Close to the ground, it was not built for comfort, but was generally a linen or some other material sheet stretched over some hay or straw.
The mattress might be called a palliasse, or sometimes pallet, based on the French word for straw: paille. The name palliasse applies particularly to a mattress used on its own, without a featherbed, or solid bedstead.[1] [2]
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