Quilt Meaning
/ˈkwɪlt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
nounA roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
Sentence Examples
That quilt is really quite a piece of work with all its fine craftsmanship.
My mom made this quilt for me.
I'm really sensitive towards the cold. Could I get another quilt?
CEFR Practice Quiz
She covered her bed with a warm ____ made from many small pieces of cloth.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Her grandmother had sewn the patchwork ____ by hand over many years using scraps of old fabric.
Word Origin & History
Inherited from Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She covered her bed with a warm ____ made from many small pieces of cloth.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Her grandmother had sewn the patchwork ____ by hand over many years using scraps of old fabric.