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  • 31Quilt — Patchwork Dessus de lit en patchwork Un patchwork (aussi appelé courtepointe au Canada) est un ouvrage constitué d un assemblage de morceaux de tissus de tailles, formes et couleurs différentes. Par analogie, le mot s emploie aussi pour un… …

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  • 32quilt — noun ⇨ See also ↑duvet ADJECTIVE ▪ antique ▪ handmade ▪ crazy (AmE), patchwork ▪ a crazy quilt of regulations (figurative) …

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  • 33quilt — [[t]kwɪ̱lt[/t]] quilts 1) N COUNT A quilt is a thin cover filled with feathers or some other warm, soft material, which you put over your blankets when you are in bed. ...an old patchwork quilt. 2) N COUNT A quilt is the same as a duvet. [BRIT] …

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  • 34quilt — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a bed covering made of padding enclosed between layers of cloth etc. and kept in place by cross lines of stitching. 2 a bedspread of similar design (patchwork quilt). v.tr. 1 cover or line with padded material. 2 make or join… …

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  • 35quilt — n. a crazy; down; patchwork quilt * * * [kwɪlt] down patchwork quilt a crazy …

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  • 36quilt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. coverlet, patchquilt, comforter, goosedown, quilting. See covering. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. comforter, bed covering, coverlet, duvet, feather bed, puff, down puff, down comforter, eiderdown, batt,… …

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  • 37quilt — [13] The ultimate source of quilt is Latin culcita ‘mattress’, which passed into English via Old French cuilte. Its function gradually evolved from that of a mattress for lying on to that of a coverlet for lying under. A long standing… …

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  • 38quilt — n coverlet, counterpane, bedspread, blanket, bedcover, bedquilt; crazy quilt, patchwork quilt; eiderdown, U.S. comforter, puff, Brit. Inf. downy, feather bed …

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  • 39quilt — UK [kwɪlt] / US noun [countable] Word forms quilt : singular quilt plural quilts 1) a duvet 2) a fairly thick cover for a bed, consisting of several layers of cloth sewn together, often with attractive patterns of cloth on the top layer …

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  • 40quilt — [[t]kwɪlt[/t]] n. 1) clo a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance between them and stitched in patterns through all thicknesses to prevent the filling from shifting 2) clo anything quilted or resembling a quilt… …

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