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quilt

[kwilt]
–noun
1. a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
2. anything quilted or resembling a quilt.
3. a bedspread or counterpane, esp. a thick one.
4. Obsolete. a mattress.
–verb (used with object)
5. to stitch together (two pieces of cloth and a soft interlining), usually in an ornamental pattern.
6. to sew up between pieces of material.
7. to pad or line with material.
–verb (used without object)
8. to make quilts or quilted work.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME quilte < OF cuilte < L culcita mattress, cushion


quilter, noun
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quilt   (kwĭlt)   
n.  
  1. A coverlet or blanket made of two layers of fabric with a layer of cotton, wool, feathers, or down in between, all stitched firmly together, usually in a decorative crisscross design.

  2. A thick protective cover similar to or suggestive of a quilt.

v.   quilt·ed, quilt·ing, quilts

v.   tr.
  1. To make into a quilt by stitching (layers of fabric) together.

  2. To construct like a quilt: quilt a skirt.

  3. To pad and stitch ornamentally.

v.   intr.
  1. To make a quilt.

  2. To do quilted work.


[Middle English quilte, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin culcita, mattress.]
quilt'er n.
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Word Origin & History

quilt  (n.)
c.1300, "mattress with soft lining," from Anglo-Fr. quilte, O.Fr. cuilte "quilt, mattress" (12c.), from L. culcita "mattress," of unknown origin. Sense of "thick outer bed covering" is first recorded 1596. The verb is 1555, from the noun.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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