quilt
English
Etymology
From Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwɪlt/, [kʰw̥ɪlt]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪlt
Noun
quilt (plural quilts)
- A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
- My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.
- A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
- A quilted skirt worn by women.
Derived terms
- crazy quilt
- patchwork quilt
Translations
bed covering
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Verb
quilt (third-person singular simple present quilts, present participle quilting, simple past and past participle quilted)
- To construct a quilt.
- To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.
- 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 951078816; republished in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, OCLC 779240046, pages 91–92:
- 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.
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- (UK, slang, obsolete) To beat or thrash.
- 1884, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker (page 113)
- 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)
Derived terms
- crazy quilt
- memory quilt
- quilter
- quilting
- quilting bee
- quilting needle
- t-shirt quilt
Translations
to construct a quilt
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to construct something else with quilting technique
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See also
- batting
- pinking shears
- sew
- cotton
Middle English
Noun
quilt
- Alternative form of quilte
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
quilt m (definite singular quilten, indefinite plural quiltar, definite plural quiltane)
- Alternative spelling of kvilt