coverlidn.
/ˈkʌvəlɪd/ a. = coverlet n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > outer cover
coverture?c1225
chalon1301
coverlet1382
coverlida1400
quiltpointc1400
pane1405
counterpointa1475
liggera1483
happing1503
counterpane1626
palampore1676
spread1750
duvet1759
mata1894
suggan1907
eiderdown1950
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11239 Was þar na pride o couerled [Trin. Cambr., Gött. couerlite], chamber curtin ne tapit.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 742/16 Hoc cooportorium, a coverlyd.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 33 Fling a couerled on him.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xviii. 323 And on him laid a fair white Coverled.
1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Diverting Wks. 508 She wrapp'd her self up in her Coverlaid.
1765 London Chron. 3 Jan. 9 Blankets and coverlids were distributed to the necessitous poor.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 174 Blankets and coverlids.
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xxvii. 184 The bed, with its silken coverlid.
b. transferred and figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering
wrielsc825
coverc1320
hillingc1325
eyelida1382
covering1382
casea1398
coverta1400
tegumentc1440
hacklea1450
coverturec1450
housingc1450
deck1466
heeler1495
housera1522
coverlet1551
shrouda1561
kever1570
vele1580
periwig1589
hap1593
opercle1598
integument?1611
blanketa1616
cask1646
operiment1650
coverlid1654
tegment1656
shell?1677
muff1687
operculum1738
tegmen1807
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xv. 253 Having nothing but the spangled Coverlid of Heaven over him.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1070 This field Spider..stretching forth his sheet with a Coverlaid.
1854 J. Ruskin Lect. Archit. i. 34 The very soul of the cottage..is in its thick impenetrable coverlid of close thatch.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. ix. 280 Under a coverlid of London Fog.
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