coverlid

coverlid

English

Etymology

Variant form of coverlet.

Noun

coverlid (plural coverlids)

1. A coverlet.
   • 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford 2009, p. 93:

     [T]aking some clean towels out of my night-sack, I spread them over the coverlid, on which tired nature found repose, in spite of the previous disgust.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 141:

     The physician took his hand, and strove to draw him aside; but the attempt caught the eye of the sufferer; she strove to raise herself, and extend her hand to her father, but it dropped heavily on the coverlid.

   • 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 9

     'Here are your clean clothes,' she went on, stroking my coverlid with her brown hand as she spoke.

Anagrams

• velcroid