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bedspread

[bed-spred] / ˈbɛdˌsprɛd /
NOUN
thick, often quilted, covering for bed
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In the ruins, Sabbagh picked out bits of his family's shattered life -- a scrap of his mother Afaf's bedspread, chunks of wooden furniture from their dining room, a red sofa cushion.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

In this case, I can’t see how ironing out a few wrinkles and covering a rumpled duvet with a digital bedspread materially misrepresents your home.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026

I told her I wanted a white, fake-leather water bed with a black fake-fur bedspread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

My mom had decorated my room all red — red curtains, red bedspread, red rug, red pillows — and I just knew it did not make me feel good.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2023

The walls are a dark, deep red, and everything else is black— desk, chair, bookcase, bedspread, guitars.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

After staging plays in the family garage, where she used blue chenille bedspreads as curtains, Ms. Welch enrolled in classes at a local junior theater.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023

Our twin beds have matching Roy Rogers bedspreads, and the room’s wallpaper is a pattern of cowboys roping steers and riding broncos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

Flags, quilts, bedspreads, and banners — these are not your typical fine art forms.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2022

With the exception of a single small bedroom and a grouping of furniture covered either in bedspreads or drop cloths — I couldn’t tell — the space is entirely given over to her work.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021

The walls are white, but the floor is brown, the bedspreads brown.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman


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