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quilt en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [ˈkʰwɪlt]
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈkwɪlt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.

Meanings

  1. A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
    • My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.
  2. A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
  3. A quilted skirt worn by women.
  4. (figuratively) Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.
    • Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout. Early on […] she alternated alternated jokes and stanzas, providing a wonderful quilt of her musical and story-telling talents. 1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
quilts Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

honeycomb quilt · quiltmaking · quiltlike · bedquilt · quilty · nanoquilt · memory quilt · quillow · crazy quilt · quiltmaker · patchwork quilt · quilt show · continental quilt

Translations (86)

ru стёганая ткань (bed covering) · ru стёганое полотно (bed covering) · fi täkki (bed covering) · ja 掛け布団 (bed covering) · de Steppdecke (bed covering) · pt edredão (bed covering) · pt colcha (bed covering) · pl kołdra (bed covering) · kk құрақ көрпе (bed covering) · twf kwíltoną (bed covering) · tr yorgan (bed covering) · hu paplan (bed covering) · de Daunendecke (bed covering) · bg кувертю́ра (bed covering) · cs peřina (bed covering) · kmr lihêf (bed covering) · sq kuvertë (bed covering) · mrw dabar (bed covering) · vi duvet (bed covering) · es cuilta (bed covering) · ltg kouldre (bed covering) · fr édredon (bed covering) · es cobija (bed covering) · te బొంత (bed covering) · mi kuira (bed covering) · haw kapa poho (bed covering) · de Duvet (bed covering) · ca edredó (bed covering) · nl quilt (bed covering) · ckb لێفە (bed covering) · bn লেপ (bed covering) · la strātum (bed covering) · uk пери́на (bed covering) · et vatitekk (bed covering) · es edredón (bed covering) · as কেঁথা (bed covering) · bg юрга̀н (bed covering) · es plumón (bed covering) · gd cuibhrig (bed covering) · el πάπλωμα (bed covering) · eo litkovrilo (bed covering) · ga cuilt (bed covering) · chr ᏰᎦᏟ (bed covering) · gd cuilt (bed covering) · fa دواج (bed covering) · es colcha (bed covering) · fr couette (bed covering) · fa لحاف (bed covering) · nv golchóón (bed covering) · sh poplun (bed covering) · uz koʻrpa (bed covering) · ja(bed covering) · ro plapumă (bed covering) · pt edredom (bed covering) · sh поплун (bed covering) · as লেপ (bed covering) · chr ᎠᏰᎧᎵ (bed covering) · sh јорган (bed covering) · sh jorgan (bed covering) · kmr yurẍan (bed covering) · gl edredón (bed covering) · lv vatēta sega (bed covering) · ru пери́на (bed covering) · gl colcha (bed covering) · enm quilte (bed covering) · nan-hbl 被仔 (bed covering) · it trapunta (bed covering) · yue(bed covering) · sq jorgan (bed covering) · th ผ้านวม (bed covering) · ne तन्ना (bed covering) · bn কাঁথা (bed covering) · unm ahkwiyàn (bed covering) · cmn(bed covering) · pt frouxel (bed covering) · fr courtepointe (bed covering) · de Federbett (bed covering) · de Quilt (bed covering) · es cubrelecho (bed covering) · sv filt (bed covering) · es acolchado (bed covering) · ka საბანი (bed covering) · sv täcke (bed covering) · da vattæppe (bed covering) · ka დალიანდაგებული საბანი (bed covering) · cmn 被子 (bed covering)

quilt en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • [ˈkʰwɪlt]
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈkwɪlt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.

Meanings

  1. To construct a quilt.
  2. To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.
    • Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree. 1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, →OCLC, pages 91–92:
    • Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn. 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 107–108:
  3. (UK, obsolete, slang) To beat or thrash.
    • I am glad, said Mr. Slick, that cussed critter, that schoolmaster, hasn't yet woke up. I'm most afeerd if he had aturned out afore we started, I should have quilted him, for that talk of his last night sticks in my crop considerable hard. 1884, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker, page 113:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
quilting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
quilts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
quilted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
quilted Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

quilter · quilting · quilting bee · quilting needle

Relateds

pinking shears · batting · sew · cotton

Translations (18)

haw poho (to construct a quilt) · fi topata (to construct a quilt) · it trapuntare (to construct a quilt) · pl robić kołdrę (to construct a quilt) · es acolchar (to construct something else with quilting technique) · pl przeszyć (to construct something else with quilting technique) · pl przeszywać (to construct something else with quilting technique) · fr matelasser (to construct a quilt) · ka საბნის დალიანდაგება (to construct a quilt) · it imbottire (to construct a quilt) · hu tűzdel (to construct something else with quilting technique) · hu steppel (to construct something else with quilting technique) · fi topata (to construct something else with quilting technique) · fr ouater (to construct a quilt) · es acolchar (to construct a quilt) · pl pikować (to construct something else with quilting technique) · pl zrobić kołdrę (to construct a quilt) · cmn 絎 /绗 (to construct something else with quilting technique)