bedquilt
/ˈbɛd.kwɪlt/
bedquilt noun: a quilt used for spreading over a bed, as the topmost layer of bedclothes.
Noun
bedquilt (plural bedquilts)
- A quilt used for spreading over a bed, as the topmost layer of bedclothes.
- Five hundred years ago, that ugly whirl of muddy surf, 100 square miles in area, was a fruitful field, "50 Villages upon it, one Town, several Monasteries and 50,000 souls:" till on Christmas midnight A.D. 1277, the winds and the storm-rains having got to their height, Ocean and Ems did, "about...1756, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.)
- We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and...1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part 2
Forms of bedquilt
| plural | bedquilts |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bed quilt |
Origin of bedquilt
From bed + quilt.
Questions about bedquilt
- What does bedquilt mean?
- Bedquilt means a quilt used for spreading over a bed, as the topmost layer of bedclothes.
- What part of speech is bedquilt?
- Bedquilt is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bedquilt?
- Bedquilt is pronounced /ˈbɛd.kwɪlt/.
- What is the plural of bedquilt?
- The plural of bedquilt is bedquilts.
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