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Recent Examples of counterpane
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.
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Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane.
—Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013
Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane.
—Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterpane
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Or, if you’re obsessed with your current comforter but still need a little extra weight for winter, check out this blue diamond gauze quilt, which makes for the ideal bedding layer.Megan Schaltegger, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2024
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Perry had compared the people of America to the different fabrics of a quilt that his grandmother pieced for him.Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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The Riley Home coverlet solves all of those problems.Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
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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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Heidi Klum as a wall and a bedspread in 2020 The pandemic forced Klum to get creative in 2020.Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Better Homes & Gardens Cable Cozy Knit Throw Blanket Layer a knit throw blanket on your bedspread for additional comfort, or wrap yourself in it during movie nights.Ali Faccenda, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
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These include an ornate 17th century cabinet decorated with Peruvian silver and five historic barkcloth textiles from various Pacific islands, including a bedcover that once belonged to Hawaiian Queen Ka’ahumanu.Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
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Perhaps standing in the doorway of a parent’s bedroom, or sprawled out on the bedroom floor, or even flopped on top of the bedcovers themselves, otherwise sphinxlike teens often share freely what’s on their minds at a time when parents might want to curl up and drift off.Lisa Damour, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
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“Counterpane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterpane. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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