duvet
- a usually down-filled quilt, often with a removable cover; comforter.
Origin of duvet
Related Words for duvet
comforter, bedspread, blanket, quilt, patchwork, cover, down, pad, puff, coverlet, counterpane, duvet, eiderdown, pouf, battExamples from the Web for duvet
Contemporary Examples of duvet
I pulled my duvet up to my chin and felt the mattress shaping to my body.
One look resembled a duvet cover thrown around the shoulders like a long cape.
Comme Des Garçons, Kenzo, and More Japanese Designers at Paris Fashion WeekLiza Foreman
March 4, 2014
A tube of lubricant also flew into the stalls as a duvet was swiftly scooped up.
The Dior dress Lawrence donned at the Globes bears a strong resemblance to a duvet cover accented with black tape.
But they believed, too, that Knox and Sollecito took pity on her later by covering her with a duvet.
Historical Examples of duvet
But she improved it: "You must have it after you're in bed, and you must have my duvet."
It Never Can Happen AgainWilliam De Morgan
He put his face down in her duvet and smelled the cotton covers and her nighttime sweat, like a spice, like cinnamon.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves TownCory Doctorow
The only covering consisted of a single blanket, and the duvet or down pillow, always found upon the foot of continental beds.
An American Girl AbroadAdeline Trafton
After a while he lowered himself on to the bed, and lay between Miss Showers and myself on the outside of the duvet.
There is no DeathFlorence Marryatt
duvet
- another name for continental quilt
- Also called: duvet jacket a down-filled jacket used esp by mountaineers
Word Origin for duvet
Word Origin and History for duvet
1758, from French duvet "down," earlier dumet, diminutive of dum "down."