Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bedquilt or bedspread.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of bedcover.

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Examples

  • Here it acquires extra resonance in that Ben Miles's Robert first hurls a bed-cover at Emma's head, and then, as she looks pleadingly at him, leans across to wipe her tears.

    Betrayal - review 2011

  • Here it acquires extra resonance in that Ben Miles's Robert first hurls a bed-cover at Emma's head, and then, as she looks pleadingly at him, leans across to wipe her tears.

    Betrayal - review 2011

  • Here it acquires extra resonance in that Ben Miles's Robert first hurls a bed-cover at Emma's head, and then, as she looks pleadingly at him, leans across to wipe her tears.

    Betrayal - review 2011

  • I pulled the bed-cover round me, for I was shivering with cold, and the German idea of a towel is a pocket-handkerchief.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • Both his arms were above the bed-cover, the right hand strongly clenched, and occasionally making that abortive attempt to strike which usually attends dreams of violence; the left was extended, and agitated, from time to time, by a movement as if repulsing some one.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • ‘Well, if you must know, my heart is in the bed-cover.’

    The Pink Fairy Book 2003

  • He had on one of them dirty-coloured bed-cover sort of things, and it was wrapped all over his head and round his body, like, as I have been told, them there Arabs wear, -- and, indeed, I've seen them in them myself at West Brompton, when they was in the exhibition there.

    The Beetle Richard Marsh

  • I can remember when we thought a newspaper opened out was a bed-cover.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

  • If there is only one nursery for both day and night use, the room should be decorated as a day nursery and the bed-cover made of white dimity with a border of the curtain stuff or made entirely of it.

    Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

  • I could make out its thin, rigid, pathetic outline under a dark-blue bed-cover.

    The Saltmarsh Murders Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1933

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