as in quilt
a decorative cloth used as a top covering for a bed
bought a beautiful new coverlet to match the sheets
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Recent Examples of coverlet
These coverlets are currently being tested long-term.
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Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
Grossman, 62, channeled her emotions into textile and thread, creating a coverlet to express her heartache, agony and anger.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2025
Rounded forms, meanwhile, offer their own language—from arched doors that riff on warehouse precedents to the folds of curtains that wrap the bedroom to the wavy motif on the custom coverlet, Jett’s homage to kimono fabrics.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 15 Jan. 2025
This should be in addition to a quilt, coverlet, duvet, or comforter.
—Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2024
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Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
Grossman, 62, channeled her emotions into textile and thread, creating a coverlet to express her heartache, agony and anger.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2025
Rounded forms, meanwhile, offer their own language—from arched doors that riff on warehouse precedents to the folds of curtains that wrap the bedroom to the wavy motif on the custom coverlet, Jett’s homage to kimono fabrics.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 15 Jan. 2025
This should be in addition to a quilt, coverlet, duvet, or comforter.
—Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coverlet
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
Noun
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The officers begin to remove the bedspread and pull her up.—
Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2025
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Stay Here: Opening its lavish doors in 1887, Hotel Splendide Royale calls to mind the gilded age of travel with its glamorous details, like dense drapery in the guest rooms and wallpaper that coordinates with the bedspreads.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 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
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“Coverlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coverlet. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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