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coverlid

coverlid noun: a coverlet.

Noun

coverlid (plural coverlids)

  1. A coverlet.
    • [T]aking some clean towels out of my night-sack, I spread them over the coverlid, on which tired nature found repose, in spite of the previous disgust.1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 93
    • The physician took his hand, and strove to draw him aside; but the attempt caught the eye of the sufferer; she strove to raise herself, and extend her hand to her father, but it dropped heavily on the coverlid.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Sick Room”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 141

Forms of coverlid

pluralcoverlids

Origin of coverlid

Variant form of coverlet.

Questions about coverlid

What does coverlid mean?
Coverlid means a coverlet.
What part of speech is coverlid?
Coverlid is a noun.
What is the plural of coverlid?
The plural of coverlid is coverlids.

Words near coverlid in the dictionary

  1. coverlessness
  2. coverlet
  3. coverleted
  4. coverlets
  5. coverletted
  6. coverlid
  7. coverlids
  8. coverline
  9. coverlines
  10. covermeter
  11. covermeters

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