| 单词 | friendship quilt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfriendship quilt friendship quilt n. originally U.S. a handmade quilt comprising a variety of blocks, typically made by a group of friends, with each participant making and signing one or more blocks. Cf. album quilt at album n.2 Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1866 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 10 Feb. The editor of the Presque Isle Loyal Sunrise has been made the happy recipient of a ‘Friendship Quilt’, the gift of forty-eight ladies of that village. 1944 E. F. Robacker Pennsylvania Dutch Stuff (1945) 43 Comparatively few patchwork quilts were dated, usually only those which were ‘friendship’ quilts (in which individual blocks were contributed by friends). 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Jan. d5 You can ask friends who can sew to come to a party and help to create a friendship quilt. 2004 K. Wellhousen & I. Crowther Creating Effective Learning Environments vii. 134 A class was making a friendship quilt to hang on the wall of a new children's pioneer museum. < as lemmas |
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