bedquilt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bedquilt
Example Sentences
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It was quite different from the warm jungle where he could sleep out of doors with only his own fur for a bedquilt.
From Mappo, the Merry Monkey by Richard Barnum
I do believe, Wun Lungy, that if ever that there handsome young man should go and get married I’d set him up in my fifty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-five piece bedquilt.
From Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch by Evelyn Raymond
Joel slipped off the gay patched bedquilt, and ran up to his mother, drawing a long breath.
From The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney
Polly hopped off the bed in her liveliest fashion, while from under Mamsie's wrapper scuttled a black object over the bedquilt in the opposite direction.
From The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney
The iron tower and the gorgeous bedquilt came cumbrously but gracefully pirouetting down the lists, and we tripped lightly up to meet them.
From A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 8. by Mark Twain
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