as in quilt
a decorative cloth used as a top covering for a bed
a beautiful bedspread that is a reproduction of an 18th-century design
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Recent Examples of bedspread
Grab this shabby chic bedspread in green, grey or pink.
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Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2025
Read on to discover the best linen spray options to freshen your bedspread, wow overnight visitors, or even use to perk up your wardrobe staples pre-laundry day.
—Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 1 May 2025
This lightweight bedspread has a classic quilt design.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
Cue the viridian green of the new Amedeo bed, with its padded structure and fine silk upholstery entirely hand-embroidered with a jungle motif that continues on the bedspread and the bolster pillows, or the deep red of the Pascal armchair with a dragon embroidered on the back.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
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Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2025
Read on to discover the best linen spray options to freshen your bedspread, wow overnight visitors, or even use to perk up your wardrobe staples pre-laundry day.
—Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 1 May 2025
This lightweight bedspread has a classic quilt design.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
Cue the viridian green of the new Amedeo bed, with its padded structure and fine silk upholstery entirely hand-embroidered with a jungle motif that continues on the bedspread and the bolster pillows, or the deep red of the Pascal armchair with a dragon embroidered on the back.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedspread
Noun
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Shoppers raved about the many benefits to owning the quilt.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 July 2025
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Featuring knit and crochet items, baby quilts, floral arrangements, jewelry and wooden crafts.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Cotton voile keeps this coverlet light and breezy, and this set comes with matching shams (also 30% off).—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
11 July 2025
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In her bedroom, a coverlet that Weiss assembled from vintage quilts adorns the bed.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Beneath wall text describing Báthory’s ghoulish crimes and her macabre punishment, bloody mannequins in nightshirts, one with its throat hideously cut, sprawl across a counterpane.—
Sam Lipsyte,
Harper’s Magazine ,
27 Apr. 2022
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The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane.—
Jon Meacham,
House Beautiful,
1 Oct. 2013
Noun
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These include an ornate 17th century cabinet decorated with Peruvian silver and five historic barkcloth textiles from various Pacific islands, including a bedcover that once belonged to Hawaiian Queen Ka’ahumanu.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2023
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Perhaps standing in the doorway of a parent’s bedroom, or sprawled out on the bedroom floor, or even flopped on top of the bedcovers themselves, otherwise sphinxlike teens often share freely what’s on their minds at a time when parents might want to curl up and drift off.—
Lisa Damour,
Anchorage Daily News,
25 Feb. 2023
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“Bedspread.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedspread. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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