Both Uses of
pallet
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Mercedes, although deposed from the exalted position she had occupied, lost in the sphere she had now chosen, like a person passing from a room splendidly lighted into utter darkness, appeared like a queen, fallen from her palace to a hovel, and who, reduced to strict necessity, could neither become reconciled to the earthen vessels she was herself forced to place upon the table, nor to the humble pallet which had become her bed.†
Chpt 105-106
- Sometimes he was delirious, and fancied he saw an old man stretched on a pallet; he, also, was dying of hunger.†
Chpt 115-116 *
Definition:
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(pallet as in: loaded the pallet) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it