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bedspread

[bed-spred] / ˈbɛdˌsprɛd /
NOUN
thick, often quilted, covering for bed
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In the ruins, Sabbagh picked out bits of his family's shattered life -- a scrap of his mother Afaf's bedspread, chunks of wooden furniture from their dining room, a red sofa cushion.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

Perhaps that’s somewhat different from covering a duvet with a bedspread — although, in fairness, that doesn’t exist either.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026

So Squire and his colleagues analysed everything they could see in Lucy's room: the bedspread, her outfits, her stuffed toys.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

I told her I wanted a white, fake-leather water bed with a black fake-fur bedspread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

I lie down on my bedspread and open it slowly just as I hear Daddy’s key in the door.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome

After staging plays in the family garage, where she used blue chenille bedspreads as curtains, Ms. Welch enrolled in classes at a local junior theater.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023

Our twin beds have matching Roy Rogers bedspreads, and the room’s wallpaper is a pattern of cowboys roping steers and riding broncos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

Add posters, bedspreads, pillows or whatever else to make it feel warm.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

In the 1980s, the company expanded into the home furnishings of my youth: bedspreads, upholstered furniture, draperies, wallpaper and ceramic tiles in tiny florals ideally arranged all together to create a matchy-matchy sanctuary.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

The beds, too, had been drawn in from the wall, but they had been covered with cotton bedspreads Mrs. Glass herself had provided.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger




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