Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: quilt
IPA transcription: [kw'ɪlt]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: quilt, comforter, comfort, puff
    Meaning: bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
Usage examples
  • She had then covered her face with the quilt.
  • "I hope this quilt is harmless if it IS crazy," he said.
  • She had an eiderdown quilt wrapped around her over her dressing-gown.
  • Betsey had told Aunt Hannah she had given away the crazy quilt and the doll-baby, but had been scolded very little.
  • "Here," said she, "here is something to keep you warm," and she folded the crazy quilt around the Scarecrow and pinned it.
  • "Why, it's my old crazy quilt, but it isn't crazy now!" cried Aunt Hannah, and her very spectacles seemed to glisten with amazement.
  • He was lying with his head beneath a little bed quilt, just as Marcella had dropped him when she left the nursery; so he could not see what was going on.
  • But after that the snow began to turn to rain, and the crazy quilt was soaked through and through: and not only that, but his coat and the poor doll-baby.
  • Aunt Hannah was making a crazy patchwork quilt, and she frowned hard at a triangular piece of red silk and circular piece of pink, wondering how to fit them together.
  • But the quilt was warm, and he dismissed his fears. Soon the doll-baby whimpered, but he creaked his joints a little, and that amused it, and he heard it cooing inside his coat.