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coverlet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

coverlet (plural coverlets)

  • A blanket used as a bed covering, usually quilted.
    • ✤ Near-synonyms: bedspread, bedcover, counterpane, quilt
    • ✤ Year after year unto her feet,
      She lying on her couch alone,
      Across the purpled coverlet,
      The maiden’s jet-black hair has grown, […]      1
    • ✤ The wintering grasses smoldered with a reddish-browh hue, similar to the patches on the bird’s coverlet feathers.2

Etymology

From Middle English coverlite, from Anglo-Norman cuver-lit, formed on cuvrir (“to cover”) + lit (“bed”). Cognate with Catalan cobrellit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈkʌvə(ɹ)lɪt/
  • Audio (US): 🔊

Printed 2026-08-17.

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Footnotes

  1. 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 152: ↩

  2. 2021, Peter Cavanagh, “9. Cranes”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 218: ↩

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