coverlet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a decorative or light bed covering, often quilted

   She folded the embroidered coverlet at the foot of the bed.

From Middle English coverlite, from Anglo-Norman cuver-lit, literally "cover-bed," formed from cuvrir ("to cover") + lit ("bed"). The final syllable is unrelated to the English diminutive suffix -let.

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