coverlet

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It is not inclosed in a coffin, but lies upon a bamboo litter, and under ordinary circumstances is covered with a sheet, but when the family is rich it is wrapped in the richest of silks and embroideries, and the coverlet is an expensive Cashmere shawl Arriving at the river an oblong pile of wood is built up and the body is placed upon it.

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  1. noun A bedspread.

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  1. Middle English coverlite, from Anglo-Norman coverelyth : Old French covrir, to cover; see cover + Old French lit, bed (from Latin lēctus; see legh- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Accom. form, as if from cover, n., + diminutive suffix -let, of Middle English coverlyte, from Old French covrelit, French couvre-lit, a bed-covering, from covrir, couvrir, cover, + lit, from Latin lectus, a bed: see cover, v., and lectual. Cf. coverlid.
 

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/ˈkəvərlɛt/
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