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
And, believe it or not, the soft material doesn’t make the coverlet overbearingly hot.
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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
There's comforters meant for duvets, comforters that don't need duvets, the duvets themselves, quilts, coverlets, and even weighted blankets.
—Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
Bamboo Coverlet Leave the throw size of this coverlet out on your sofa, or grab the twin, queen, or king sizes to use as a lightweight comforter or an extra bedding layer.
—Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2024
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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
There's comforters meant for duvets, comforters that don't need duvets, the duvets themselves, quilts, coverlets, and even weighted blankets.
—Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
Bamboo Coverlet Leave the throw size of this coverlet out on your sofa, or grab the twin, queen, or king sizes to use as a lightweight comforter or an extra bedding layer.
—Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coverlet
Noun
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Up the street, other returning residents hauled sofas, quilts and cushions into their front yards.—
Jack Healy,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Nubby quilts warm up the bedrooms, a sultry Soane fabric dresses up a thrift shop–found sofa, and an original soapstone sink rough up the new mudroom.—
Jennifer Fernandez,
Architectural Digest,
20 Jan. 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
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 30 Jan. 2025.
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