bedquilt

[ bed-kwilt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1755–65; bed + quilt

It was quite different from the warm jungle where he could sleep out of doors with only his own fur for a bedquilt.

She scanned the woollen arabesques on the bedquilt, which the servant had given a furious shaking.

And Grandmother Underhill had sent the little girl her Irish chain bedquilt, finished and quilted.

You Dicey, come on here, an' tromp on the other side o' this bedquilt till I h'ist yo' young marster up on to my shoulder.

A bedquilt of blue silk and two pillows in white cases are hung over the railing of the balcony on the second floor.

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