bedquilt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bedquilt
Example Sentences
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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 Twain, Mark
As fur as I wuz concerned, I had done my duty, for the crazy bedquilt wuz done; and though brains might totter as they looked at it, I felt that it wuzn't my fault.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3 by Holley, Marietta
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 Sidney, Margaret
I sleep under a pink silk bedquilt, and I have all new clothes.
From Turn About Eleanor by Cootes, F. Graham
Silken purses and beautiful socks knitted with fancy stitches, and holy book-marks for his Bible, and even a wonderful bedquilt, and a fine linen shirt with hem-stitched bands, poured in upon him.
From Evelina's Garden by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
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