quilt

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

QUILT, noun [Latin culcita.] A cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton or other substance between two cloths and sewing them together; as beds covered with magnificent quilts. QUILT, verb transitive 1. To stitch together two pieces of cloth with some soft and warm substance between them; as a quilted bedcover; a quilted coat. 2. To sew in the manner of a quilt
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