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
Thick duvets and cozy coverlets add comfort, and throw pillows bring in color and pattern.
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Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2025
These coverlets are currently being tested long-term.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
Grossman, 62, channeled her emotions into textile and thread, creating a coverlet to express her heartache, agony and anger.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2025
Rounded forms, meanwhile, offer their own language—from arched doors that riff on warehouse precedents to the folds of curtains that wrap the bedroom to the wavy motif on the custom coverlet, Jett’s homage to kimono fabrics.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 15 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2025
These coverlets are currently being tested long-term.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
Grossman, 62, channeled her emotions into textile and thread, creating a coverlet to express her heartache, agony and anger.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2025
Rounded forms, meanwhile, offer their own language—from arched doors that riff on warehouse precedents to the folds of curtains that wrap the bedroom to the wavy motif on the custom coverlet, Jett’s homage to kimono fabrics.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coverlet
Noun
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An employee walks past a quilt displaying Etsy Inc. signage at the company’s headquarters in the Brooklyn.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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Bedding Deals Swap heavy bedding for lightweight, cooling quilts, sheets, and gel fiber bed pillows to avoid overheating at night.—
Ali Faccenda,
People.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This lightweight bedspread has a classic quilt design.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
16 Apr. 2025
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Cue the viridian green of the new Amedeo bed, with its padded structure and fine silk upholstery entirely hand-embroidered with a jungle motif that continues on the bedspread and the bolster pillows, or the deep red of the Pascal armchair with a dragon embroidered on the back.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
14 Apr. 2025
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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 26 Apr. 2025.
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