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单词 counterpane
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counterpane

noun
/ˈkaʊntəpeɪn/
/ˈkaʊntərpeɪn/
(British English, old-fashioned)
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  1. an attractive cover put on top of all the sheets and covers on a bed synonym bedspread
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: alteration of counterpoint, from Old French contrepointe, based on medieval Latin culcitra puncta ‘quilted mattress’ (puncta, literally meaning ‘pricked’, from the verb pungere). The change in the ending was due to association with pane in an obsolete sense ‘cloth’.
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