What's the difference between coverlet and quilt?

Coverlet


Definition:

  • (n.) The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was found dead under a heavy 'futon', a coverlet, which covered the whole of his body.
  • (2) On a winter day, a 52-day-old female baby was placed under a Japanese electric foot warmer with a coverlet (kotatsu) on an electric carpet warmer in a heated room at home.

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).

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