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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
Noun
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The movie is constructed like a visual scrap quilt made in a meticulous and orderly fashion, sometimes focusing on Elwood's life in the '60s and other times flashing forward to the near-present day.Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
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Featuring knit and crochet items, baby quilts, floral arrangements, jewelry and wooden crafts.Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The brown linen coverlet is from Cultiver by Colin King.Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Riley Home coverlet solves all of those problems.Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Pillows in Pierre Frey fabric, vintage kilim bedspread and sconces.Leilani Marie Labong, Architectural Digest, 25 Nov. 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
Noun
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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 25 Dec. 2024.
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