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Coverlet definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COVERLET, n. [cover, and a bed.] The cover of a bed; a piece of furniture designed to be spread over all the other covering of a bed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a decorative bedspread (usually quilted)

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, alteration of coverlite, from Anglo-French coverlit, from covre (it) covers + lit bed, from Latin lectus — more at lie Date: 14th century bedspread

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a bedspread. Etymology: ME f. AF covrelet, -lit f. OF covrir cover + lit bed

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Coverlet Cov"er*let (k?v"?r-l?t), n. [F. couvre-lit; couvrir to cover + lit bed, fr. L. lectus bed. See Cover.] The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. --Spenser.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(coverlets) A coverlet is the same as a bedspread. (OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also coverlid) Counterpane.