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
Consider painting your kitchen cabinets in sage green paint or swapping out your neutral bedspread for a calming sage duvet.
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Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
Pillows in Pierre Frey fabric, vintage kilim bedspread and sconces.
—Leilani Marie Labong, Architectural Digest, 25 Nov. 2024
Heidi Klum as a wall and a bedspread in 2020
The pandemic forced Klum to get creative in 2020.
—Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Better Homes & Gardens Cable Cozy Knit Throw Blanket
Layer a knit throw blanket on your bedspread for additional comfort, or wrap yourself in it during movie nights.
—Ali Faccenda, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
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Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
Pillows in Pierre Frey fabric, vintage kilim bedspread and sconces.
—Leilani Marie Labong, Architectural Digest, 25 Nov. 2024
Heidi Klum as a wall and a bedspread in 2020
The pandemic forced Klum to get creative in 2020.
—Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Better Homes & Gardens Cable Cozy Knit Throw Blanket
Layer a knit throw blanket on your bedspread for additional comfort, or wrap yourself in it during movie nights.
—Ali Faccenda, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedspread
Noun
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The queen-size quilt is on sale in steel blue, brick red, and black, but the steel blue color has the steepest discount at 60 percent off.—
Maggie Horton,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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The club donates hundreds of quilts and other handmade items to a various groups, including Rady Children’s Hospital, senior centers, hospitals, police and military groups.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Apr. 2025
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Honestly, the coverlets deserve a three-bedroom house, one color in each room.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 Mar. 2025
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In the primary bedroom, a custom bed upholstered in Michael Smith fabric is dressed in a Hollywood at Home coverlet, while vintage floral sconces frame the headboard.—
Kristen Flanagan,
Architectural Digest,
31 Mar. 2025
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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
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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 16 Apr. 2025.
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