(n. pl.) Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - go unchanged... ...and where their cries of pain go unheard.
(2) The bedclothes and pillows of each subject were laundered and vacuum-cleaned and a plastic cover applied to the mattress for six weeks in an attempt to reduce exposure to mites.
(3) These two infants' bedclothes were repeatedly wet with sweat.
(4) Younger mothers and mothers in the lower social groups put more bedclothes over their babies, and the latter also kept their rooms warmer.
(5) We have examined the relation of perineal colonization by coliforms to bacteriuria and to contamination of bedclothes and other environmental sites with these organisms in spinally injured patients.
(6) The couple had tried to protect themselves from the fire by covering themselves with synthetic bedclothes but they had stuck to their bodies.
(7) Questionnaires to 542 users of far-infrared radiator disks embedded in bedclothes revealed that the majority of the users subjectively evaluated an improvement of their health.
(8) "It can make us feel that the problem is too great and we may as well pull up the bedclothes and wait for disaster.
(9) Asthmatic attacks are usually nocturnal, especially in bedrooms with old bedclothes.
(10) Residents of the Morleigh Group homes lay in urine-soaked bedclothes, sat in chairs for hours with plates of unfinished food in front of them and waited weeks to receive medical attention, the Care Quality Commission said .
(11) Towels and sweat-ridden bedclothes remained for two days in the Dallas apartment where an undiagnosed Ebola sufferer – Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan – was staying because health officials in Texas struggled to find a waste management company willing to accept them.
(12) I is reduced if the cot is small, if occupation has been belief, and if the bedclothes are loosely draped over the baby.
(13) The neighbours showed the Guardian a pile of melted bedclothes and a woman’s bra lying on the ground surrounded by blood.
(14) Previously, there was a tendency to accept the possibility that sexually transmitted disease in children could be transmitted by other means than sexual contact, eg indirectly by infected bedclothes and toilet articles.
(15) Perineal colonization was significantly associated with bacteriuria and with contamination of bedclothes, but not with contamination of other sites.
(16) And it is true that a lot of female selfie aficionados take their visual vernacular directly from pornography (unwittingly or otherwise): the pouting mouth, the pressed-together cleavage, the rumpled bedclothes in the background hinting at opportunity.
(17) Why should humanism have the privilege of looking like dangerous free-thinking, the sort of exciting thing one reads under the bedclothes at night with a torch?
(18) By candlelight, under the bedclothes, Littlewood read library books as soon as she was old enough.
(19) Picking at the bedclothes and at imaginary objects (carphology and floccillation) are characteristic, as is muscular twitching (subsultus tendinum).
(20) Secretions from the mouth and upper respiratory tract appear to be responsible for the early contamination of pillows and bedclothes.
Quilt
Definition:
(n.) Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover.
(v. t.) To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.
(v. t.) To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.
(v. t.) To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Southampton are in their not-particularly-popular all-red number, while Liverpool sport their not-particularly-popular purple-white-and-black quilted shirt.
(2) The territories of the motoneurones are arranged in a quilt-like pattern closely resembling that already found for the receptive fields of sensory cells on the skin.
(3) Here we describe a variation of Gerlach's quilting technique to overcome the problem and this modification has proven to be both simple and effective.
(4) In the first six cases, split-thickness skin was quilted onto the muscle.
(5) 18 secondary perforations were seen with the quilt-plasties.
(6) In most cases, asthma occurred in winter, due to seasonal use of bed quilts or clothes filled with silk.
(7) ITN has called for a single contract to cover all of England rather than a "patchwork quilt" of regions.
(8) The influence of structure (pressed sheets or loosely quilted materials) and exposition (single, piled or between sheets of plaster) was represented.
(9) My colleague Tim Adams, who was writing an article on better potential candidates for the London mayoralty, stood beside me, as we watched the quilted, coiffed godfather of punk, and gawped.
(10) I remember getting my first quilt with my own quilt cover and just walking around this children’s home wrapped up in it.
(11) It was Caitlin Moran who said that feminism should be a “massive patchwork quilt”; we should all fight the battles that are important to us, and bring our individual ideas and strengths to the movement.
(12) But this is a very big country and cannot be run by a very much smaller civil service in London and a huge, disparate patchwork quilt of local authorities all pulling in different directions," he says.
(13) Since the use of silk waste for the filling of bed quilts a great number of patients suffering especially from silk-asthma could be observed.
(14) Blanket, or quilt, insulation is easy to lay yourself and available at DIY stores – try B&Q 's sustainable rockwool, from £5 a roll – in stores on 21 October.
(15) At this year's Frieze, the quilted, chained shoulderbag was the style of choice in an environment where designer accessories come as standard.
(16) For others, it's a symbiotic process; a campaigning idea might be expressed through craft – let's say you're making a patchwork quilt out of embroidered vulvas, to protest against female genital mutilation – and then in the act of crafting, the idea finds new expression.
(17) Even with the quilt it gets pretty cold, but exercise helps."
(18) In each case a quilted, split-skin grafted pectoralis major muscle flap was used.
(19) Some of them presented talks in which they applied high level maths to crochet, knitting, needlework and quilting.
(20) This report describes two female patients, 69 and 79 years old, with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) developing from erythema ab igne (EAI) due to thermal irradiation from a sunken hearth (irori in Japanese) or an underfloor brazier covered with a quilt (kotatsu in Japanese).