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
The brown linen coverlet is from Cultiver by Colin King.
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Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 4 Nov. 2024
The Riley Home coverlet solves all of those problems.
—Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
And, believe it or not, the soft material doesn’t make the coverlet overbearingly hot.
—Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
Her trade trick is a queen-size coverlet cut in two with help from a sewing pro.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 7 July 2024
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Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 4 Nov. 2024
The Riley Home coverlet solves all of those problems.
—Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
And, believe it or not, the soft material doesn’t make the coverlet overbearingly hot.
—Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
Her trade trick is a queen-size coverlet cut in two with help from a sewing pro.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 7 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coverlet
Noun
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Over the past 60 years, quilts have opposed the Vietnam War and nuclear proliferation and raised awareness for Black Lives Matter and American Indians.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Feb. 2025
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Considerable care has clearly been taken to replicate the quilts, jackets, pots, and so on, that a family of the time might use, and Huo’s casting also draws upon people who weathered the era.—
Nicolas Rapold,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Select other bath sets, duvets, and organic throw blankets, and bedspreads are also up to 57% off.—
Bailey Berg,
Architectural Digest,
14 Jan. 2025
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Pillows in Pierre Frey fabric, vintage kilim bedspread and sconces.—
Leilani Marie Labong,
Architectural Digest,
25 Nov. 2024
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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 22 Feb. 2025.
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