bedspread

as in quilt
a decorative cloth used as a top covering for a bed a beautiful bedspread that is a reproduction of an 18th-century design

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Recent Examples of bedspread This lightweight bedspread has a classic quilt design. Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025 Cue the viridian green of the new Amedeo bed, with its padded structure and fine silk upholstery entirely hand-embroidered with a jungle motif that continues on the bedspread and the bolster pillows, or the deep red of the Pascal armchair with a dragon embroidered on the back. Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025 There were few clues, a muddy footprint on a bedspread, a piece of horsehair, and 13-inch strand of cord found under the victim’s body. Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025 The officers begin to remove the bedspread and pull her up. Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bedspread
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedspread
Noun
  • Shoppers raved about the many benefits to owning the quilt.
    Jacqueline Tempera, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2025
  • Featuring knit and crochet items, baby quilts, floral arrangements, jewelry and wooden crafts.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Cotton voile keeps this coverlet light and breezy, and this set comes with matching shams (also 30% off).
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2025
  • In her bedroom, a coverlet that Weiss assembled from vintage quilts adorns the bed.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Beneath wall text describing Báthory’s ghoulish crimes and her macabre punishment, bloody mannequins in nightshirts, one with its throat hideously cut, sprawl across a counterpane.
    Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane.
    Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013
Noun
  • These include an ornate 17th century cabinet decorated with Peruvian silver and five historic barkcloth textiles from various Pacific islands, including a bedcover that once belonged to Hawaiian Queen Ka’ahumanu.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Perhaps standing in the doorway of a parent’s bedroom, or sprawled out on the bedroom floor, or even flopped on top of the bedcovers themselves, otherwise sphinxlike teens often share freely what’s on their minds at a time when parents might want to curl up and drift off.
    Lisa Damour, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023

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