quilt

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a padded bed covering of stitched layers, or to make one

   Grandmother sewed a patchwork quilt from old scraps of cloth.

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Simplified etymology

Quilt came through Old French coilte or coute from Latin culcita, meaning a stuffed mattress or bed cushion. In post-classical Latin the word also came to mean a duvet, blanket, or coverlet.

From Old French cuilte, coute ('mattress, quilt'), from Latin culcita ('mattress, cushion').

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