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afghan

[af-gan, -guhn] / ˈæf gæn, -gən /
NOUN
coverlet
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Gilbert: The couch and afghan, along with the entire main kitchen and living room set are in Carsey Werner’s storage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Since September, Minnesota has welcomed 721 afghan evacuees according to the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

From Fox News • Jan. 20, 2022

I wrote early on in that essay, trying to conjure the first moment I ever saw one as an infant — my parent's afghan hound, Easy.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2021

“It was not an afghan I had knitted. If that was lost, I could knit another. It was my brother.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2021

He looked briefly at the clenched hand on the blue afghan, then, quite gently, with his cigar in his hand, took hold of Franny’s shoulder.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger




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