covered

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Two chubby little boys were asleep in a double bed, with the coverlids over their noses and their feet drawn up.

From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert

Some sent them blankets, rugs, and coverlids; some, earthenware; and some, kitchen ware for ordering203 their food.

From History of the Plague in London by Defoe, Daniel

"It's good to see you again, Pick," he added, affectionately, laying his hand, that good right hand, on the nervous one playing with the coverlids.

From Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Sidney, Margaret

The bed linen, the coverlids, the quilts, the blankets were packed in trunks, the table-linen and china in drawers and closets.

From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.

I had lined the grave with coverlids and a fine linen sheet, and now, with the aid of blankets, we lowered the clay to its last resting-place.

From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Woolson, Constance Fenimore