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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This should be in addition to a quilt, coverlet, duvet, or comforter.
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Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2024
The brown linen coverlet is from Cultiver by Colin King.
—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
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Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2024
The brown linen coverlet is from Cultiver by Colin King.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coverlet
Noun
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Featuring knit and crochet items, baby quilts, floral arrangements, jewelry and wooden crafts.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
12 Mar. 2025
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Small businesses have a huge opportunity to seize this moment and lean hard into their values and commitments to creating more space for different voices, thoughts, and ideas —creating a stronger, richer quilt that’s more multifaceted, said James.—
Allyson Kapin,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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More than 12,000 reviewers have awarded the bedspread a perfect rating.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Consider painting your kitchen cabinets in sage green paint or swapping out your neutral bedspread for a calming sage duvet.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 Feb. 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 25 Mar. 2025.
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