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of a bed. Mattresses may consist of a quilted or similarly fastened case, usually of heavy cloth, containing materials such as hair, straw, cotton, foam...

their covers. A bed filled with loose straw, but without the bedding, at a museum in Denmark Basic straw mattresses in a loft in a historic site in Nova...

thus: The unfortunate woman was lying completely naked on a rotten straw mattress. All around her was formed a sort of crust made from excrement, fragments...

eyes as straw is quite sharp. The straw-filled mattress, also known as a palliasse, is still used by people in many parts of the world. Rice straw, an agricultural...

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...

slang "plates of meat"); to fellate palone woman (Italian paglione – "straw mattress"; cf. old Cant hay-bag – "woman"); also spelled "polony" in Graham Greene's...

blanket, Robben Island Maximum Security Prison, South Africa Basic straw mattresses in Nova Scotia, Canada Gandhi's bedroom Bed in the City Palace, Jaipur...

the straw mattress with a dagger, searching for anything that should not be there. Then the canvas and feather beds were laid over the straw mattress. The...

managed to maintain possession of the skull. Rosenbaum hid the skull in a straw mattress. During the search of Rosenbaum's house, his wife Therese lay on the...

while airy and larger than the others, was sparsely furnished, with a straw mattress, table, wash basin, chair, and a bucket. Food was served four times...

Grain itch Other names Barley itch, mattress itch, prairie itch, straw itch. Specialty Dermatology...

ornaments save for some maps and an icon, and he slept on a camp bed with a straw mattress. While the state rooms occupied the northern and eastern wings of the...

enables these components to be washed or aired out. In Europe, mattresses were stuffed with straw, chaff, animal hair (for instance horsehair, used for its...

traditionally used to cover tick mattresses and bed pillows. The tight weave makes it more durable and hinders the stuffing (straw, chaff, hair, down feathers...

cold weather at night time and since their beds usually consisted of a straw mattress and a few sheets, the undergarment would act as another layer. Over...

ship or train. Beds were often long rows of large shared bunks with straw mattresses and no bed linens. A commentator described conditions in steerage aboard...

guard's room across the hallway). He dragged Taylor under some of the straw mattress to put pressure on his wounds and slow the bleeding and then went to...

stacked away inside the wagons." (Yoors, "The Gypsies", pp. 17-19). "Straw mattresses, chaff beds, palliasses, ticks stuffed with leaves". Oldandinteresting...

though they were prisoners, each one received three meals a day, a straw mattress for a bed and a G.I. blanket. Wharfield wrote that the Yaquis: Kept...

Additionally, four inmates were compelled to share 9 m² cells without even a straw mattress. During the first eight days, no excursions were permitted. Subsequently...