duvet
A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling and usually an additional washable…A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.
» We do not supply duvet covers.
Meaning
1 senses(Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK)A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.
He pulled the thick duvet over his head to block out the morning light.
Bettdecke, Steppdecke, Federbett
пухо́вое одея́лоpuxóvoje odejálo, пери́наperína
- a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider
Examples
18 sentencesWe do not supply duvet covers.
I use a duvet in winter.
deIm Winter decke ich mich mit einem Federbett zu. — Yorwba
Each baby would get a duvet cover.
She fluffed the duvet on the bed.
Even in winter she kicks off her duvet.
Translations
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Origin
From French duvet, from Middle French duvet, from Old French duvet (“down, the feathers ofFrom French duvet, from Middle French duvet, from Old French duvet (“down, the feathers of young birds”), alteration of dumet, dumect, which in turn derives from dum, dun (“down, feathers”), from Old Norse dúnn (“down, down feather”), from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, fume, raise dust”).
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Forms
plural: duvetsSynonyms
5 synonyms- a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider:eiderdowncontinental quilt