counterpane

Example Sentences

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Farder Coram leaned forward and gently pulled back the counterpane, and there protruding from Jacob’s shoulder was the feathered end of an arrow in a mass of clotted blood.

From Literature

There were of course all sorts of colored things in the bedroom; the colored counterpane on the bed, the wallpaper, the sunlight from the window, and Mother’s pretty, pale blue dressing jacket.

From Literature

According to his sister-in-law Alice, “sometimes his hand moves over the counterpane as if writing.”

From The New Yorker

But the scope of her undertaking grew to encompass a national search for woven coverlets, counterpanes, rag rugs and crocheted artifacts, all produced by enslaved women and men.

From Washington Post

She could see the pattern of the cross-stitch flowers from the blue cross-stitch counterpane on Ammu’s cheek.

From Literature