bedquilt

American  

[bed-kwilt] / ˈbɛdˌkwɪlt /

noun

1. a quilted coverlet.

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Etymology

Origin of bedquilt

First recorded in 1755–65; bed + quilt

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Example Sentences

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bedquilt

Here come a figger, heavily veiled an' wearin' a shapeless sort of a dress affair made out of a bedquilt an' draggin' behind on the ground.

From Happy Hawkins by Robert Alexander Wason

"Well, Puss, how goes it?" he asked, pulling an old bedquilt up over his knees and tucking it well around her.

From The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

One woman near me had two pillow-cases full of things, which she sat on all night, and another had a bedquilt, which she spread out for her four children to lie on.

From Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic by Ethel N. Farnsworth

"Oh! why did I speak—why did I?" she cried, over and over in her distress, as she buried her face deeper yet in Mrs. Higby's gay patch bedquilt.

From Five Little Peppers Grown Up 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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