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- noun Plural form of
counterpane .
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Examples
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According to the size of the cotton employed, this beautiful square makes different articles, such as counterpanes, couvrettes, &c. &c.
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The 15 rooms will be "straightforward, with no duck-headed shoehorns or counterpanes," according to Mr. Gulliver.
Not So Down and Out in London Jemima Sissons 2011
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This story was all over AM New York, one of the subway handout throwaway rags this morning ... with a Kilroy-like half-head of Rudy peering out from under counterpanes.
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On several occasions, they both, in the coolest manner, simultaneously dropped out of their respective bedroom windows, hand over hand by their counterpanes, to “overhaul” something mysterious in the garden.
The Haunted House 2007
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Clean white counterpanes, and curtains, and napkins, water – bottles as clear as crystal, blue jugs, and mahogany furniture, added to the splendour, and increased the comfort, of the apartment.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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On several occasions, they both, in the coolest manner, simultaneously dropped out of their respective bedroom windows, hand over hand by their counterpanes, to “overhaul” something mysterious in the garden.
The Haunted House 2007
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On several occasions, they both, in the coolest manner, simultaneously dropped out of their respective bedroom windows, hand over hand by their counterpanes, to “overhaul” something mysterious in the garden.
The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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Feel free to write with questions if you do decide to do the pieced counterpanes.
Lap Afghan 2 2004
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Women throw aside their counterpanes, rush to the basins to wash, and then, still dressed in their nightclothes, run upstairs to the attics of mansions, or downstairs to the cellars of community shacks, to retrieve costumes forgotten over the course of the previous year, all six hundred and sixty-eight days of it.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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She had counterpanes in the course of a few years to all the beds in
Vanity Fair 2006
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