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Meanings of quilt in English

Russian
квилт
Portuguese
edredão
Catalan
mantes
Spanish
colcha
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Bedcover made of multiple layers of fabric sewn together, usually stitched in decorative patterns.

        квилт
        Portuguese
        colcha
        Catalan
        edredó

        Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together.

              colcha
              Usage of quilt in English
              1
              It was a paper quilt of business cards, apartment-for-rent flyers, lost cats.
              Secret of the seventh son
              2
              I chust wrap in a quilt and sit in my old chair.
              One of Ours
              3
              The family especially plumed themselves on the slow progress of the quilt.
              Hillsboro People
              4
              Did we really want to uncover the reason for this ghastly quilt?
              Shadow of an angel
              5
              But Ledford's daddy told him that the quilt's true meaning was luck.
              The marrowbone marble company
              6
              Then he burst into tears, and crept far in under the quilt.
              Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
              7
              The man clutched with both hands at the quilt on the bed.
              Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks / A Picture of New ...
              8
              Story lifted the corner of the quilt to see what lay beneath.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 / A Magazine...
              9
              Erik was in bed, with the quilt drawn up to his eyes.
              Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
              10
              The present system is a mere crazy-quilt, unsatisfactory in a thousand ways.
              Queed: A Novel
              11
              Cordelia felt herself collapsing, falling across the crazy-quilt arrangement of monstrous bodies.
              Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
              12
              The quilt then in hand-atthat time near its completion-wasfor Eve.
              The Big Otter
              13
              The quilt pictured is Thank You Vincent by Cathy Thom from Canada.
              The Irish Times
              14
              He needed to carry his writing further and work on the quilt.
              Joe Burke's Last Stand
              15
              Her lips trembled and her knees were shaking beneath the eiderdown quilt.
              The Voice of the People
              16
              The Constitution is neither a legislative crazy-quilt nor a receptacle of fads.
              "'Tis Sixty Years Since" / Address of Charles Francis Adams; Fou...
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              Quilt through the time
              Quilt across language varieties
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