as in quilt
a decorative cloth used as a top covering for a bed
a beautiful bedspread that is a reproduction of an 18th-century design
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Recent Examples of bedspread
Stay Here: Opening its lavish doors in 1887, Hotel Splendide Royale calls to mind the gilded age of travel with its glamorous details, like dense drapery in the guest rooms and wallpaper that coordinates with the bedspreads.
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Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
Select other bath sets, duvets, and organic throw blankets, and bedspreads are also up to 57% off.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2025
More than 12,000 reviewers have awarded the bedspread a perfect rating.
—Toni Sutton, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Consider painting your kitchen cabinets in sage green paint or swapping out your neutral bedspread for a calming sage duvet.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
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Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
Select other bath sets, duvets, and organic throw blankets, and bedspreads are also up to 57% off.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2025
More than 12,000 reviewers have awarded the bedspread a perfect rating.
—Toni Sutton, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Consider painting your kitchen cabinets in sage green paint or swapping out your neutral bedspread for a calming sage duvet.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedspread
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The exhibit, up through March 28, showcases some of the same Ozark quilts that made an appearance in that exhibit, along with the debut of some newer acquisitions.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
26 Apr. 2025
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John Goodman, who began playing beloved patriarch Dan Conner on Roseanne nearly four decades ago, said he and his costars had already been given a quilt.—
Stephanie Wenger,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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For this reason, lightweight bedding is a must, and many of us are changing out warmer down comforters and duvets for lighter bedding options such as coverlets or quilts ahead of the warmer months to come.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
16 Apr. 2025
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Honestly, the coverlets deserve a three-bedroom house, one color in each room.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 Mar. 2025
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Beneath wall text describing Báthory’s ghoulish crimes and her macabre punishment, bloody mannequins in nightshirts, one with its throat hideously cut, sprawl across a counterpane.—
Sam Lipsyte,
Harper’s Magazine ,
27 Apr. 2022
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The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane.—
Jon Meacham,
House Beautiful,
1 Oct. 2013
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These include an ornate 17th century cabinet decorated with Peruvian silver and five historic barkcloth textiles from various Pacific islands, including a bedcover that once belonged to Hawaiian Queen Ka’ahumanu.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2023
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Perhaps standing in the doorway of a parent’s bedroom, or sprawled out on the bedroom floor, or even flopped on top of the bedcovers themselves, otherwise sphinxlike teens often share freely what’s on their minds at a time when parents might want to curl up and drift off.—
Lisa Damour,
Anchorage Daily News,
25 Feb. 2023
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“Bedspread.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedspread. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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