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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A usually decorative covering for a bed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The uppermost quilt or covering of a bed, generally ornamental.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket.
  2. n. A coverlet.
  3. n. A counterpane.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. United States A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. decorative cover for a bed

Etymologies

  1. bed + spread (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Crucifixes and lots of fancy ornate furniture and a gold satin bedspread****.”

    Archive 2008-04-01

  • “After the sun has set i pull myself off the bed, which is rather soft but lumpy with a thin bedspread that is well worn, but clean and freshly straightened for me each morning. the whole hotel is like this, worn but clean and kept.”

    1st Trip part two

  • “Above the ornate bed and the gold satin bedspread, there’s a light-up picture of Jesus looking miserable.”

    Archive 2008-04-01

  • “Diana spun her dansette a final time, pressing her legs into the quilted satin bedspread.”

    Ballardian » Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction competition winners

  • “Nonetheless, the bedspread was the one I'd picked out when I was 8 years old, and the furniture emanated from that era as well.”

    Marilyn M. Machlowitz: Eighty Percent of Life is Showing Up

  • “The bedspread was the same beautiful blue, embroidered with shining silver stars.”

    The Secret of Killimooin

  • “The bedspread is a vibrant, orange and green hibiscus print, and the double bed is hand-carved teak, as is a large freestanding mirror and desk.”

    NYT > Travel

  • “His Sex Pistols shirt survives, and my velvet bedspread which is admittedly so stifling that you could bake potatoes in it has not been mysteriously set aflame while I was out of town; nor has moriarty6 taken a hacksaw to my plastic glow-in-the-dark cups with the Broad Universe logo on them, even though they're so battered that most of them say things like, "oaduver" or "broise.”

    he'll be pink ... and quite clean

  • “Others are more like those busy women who, having the generous intention of making a handsome present to their pastor, at as little expense as may be, send to all their neighbors and acquaintances for scraps of various materials, out of which the imposing "bedspread" or counterpane is to be elaborated.”

    Over the Teacups

  • “(Think of something like the old-fashioned chenille bedpreads, or that other lumpy bumpy kind of bedspread there used to be tons of when I was a kid.”

    Hmmm...

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