Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bedquilt or bedspread.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
bedcover .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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‘Well, if you must know, my heart is in the bed-cover.’
The Pink Fairy Book 2003
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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
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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
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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
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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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