ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bedquilt

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈbɛd.kwɪlt/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Bedquilt is a noun meaning A quilt used for spreading over a bed, as the topmost layer of bedclothes.

Meaning

A quilt used for spreading over a bed, as the topmost layer of bedclothes.

Example Sentences

"Sold!" yelped the auctioneer--"sold to madame the widow Dupuis of Hirondelette," who was now elbowing her broad way through the crowd to her bargain which she struggled out with, red and perspiring, to the mud-smeared lawn, where her eldest daughter shrewdly examined the bedquilt for holes.
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 midnight," undermine the place, folded it over like a friable bedquilt or monstrous doomed griddle-cake, and swallowed it all away.

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Related dictionary entries include coverlet, quilt, bedspread, bedclothes, comforter, bed-clothes.

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