Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A quilt, usually with a washable cover, that may be used in place of a bedspread and top sheet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets.
- n. A cover for a quilt or comforter.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A quilt or comfortable stuffed with swans' down or eider-down.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider
Etymologies
Examples
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Sharing the duvet is a fair price to pay for having someone around to look after, who looks after you, too.
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A thin duvet of the same pattern rested at the foot of the bed and the pillows at the top were in a darker but similar shade of blue.
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Still, I've never seen a comforter itself called a duvet or down in English in Russian there is a word пуховик, meaning just that
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Maybe, you know, it’s what we call a duvet ad that covers the whole thing.
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It’s in a nice, warm spot, and the duvet is soft and comfortable.
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And then I find myself burrowing under what the English would call a duvet and the Americans would call a comforter.
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Fitted sheets, top sheets, pillowcases, and something called a duvet.
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I just love bedding, especially when the pillowcases aren't the same pattern as the top or bottom sheets and the duvet is a completely different, yet coordinating, fabric altogether.
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Our duvet is a beautiful lighter gray - and I want to keep it in the black / gray / white family.
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I mean Amber did tell her BF that they had a special toilet just for men to wash their members in called a duvet … you can't make this sh*t up.
bilby commented on the word duvet
British.
June 20, 2010
phantasee commented on the word duvet
Never heard of the song though...
June 20, 2010
phantasee commented on the word duvet
Haha, this reminds me of my friend :)
She calls it duvet, though I've always known it as duna.
She's South African, and I've grown up in Australia.
I suppose, that's the difference.
She also calls rubbish bins, dust bins.
And traffic lights, robots.
The quirks that South African's put into the English language make me giggle, though I love them more each time I hear them.
June 20, 2010
dain commented on the word duvet
Great word and song.
November 28, 2008
lampbane commented on the word duvet
"And you don't seem to understand
A shame you seemed an honest man
And all the fears you hold so dear
Will turn to whisper in your ear
And you know what they say might hurt you
And you know that it means so much
And you don't even feel a thing"
January 8, 2007