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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quilt
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
continental quilt
crazy quilt
patchwork quilt
▪ a patchwork quilt
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
patchwork
▪ Under the patchwork quilt, David turned over and sleepily pulled Clare towards him.
▪ In the past, local hotlines have to the best of their ability provided only a patchwork quilt of assistance.
▪ Across the lake is a patchwork quilt of Yorkshire countryside to the hills beyond.
▪ And did he have their little scarves sewn up into a patchwork quilt?
▪ After that, huddled under the patchwork quilt, they made love in a lazy, unhurried way.
▪ The great double bed had brass rails and was covered with a patchwork quilt.
▪ She shivered, jumped back into bed, and snuggled lower under the patchwork quilt.
▪ There were tiny fields, like a patchwork quilt thrown across the rocks.
■ VERB
make
▪ She was making a patchwork quilt for the baby's cot.
▪ They stayed in San Simon, making and selling her quilts.
▪ The rags were popular with the women, who made quilts.
▪ Ever since Polly had decided to get married, I had been making her a quilt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a patchwork quilt
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A double bed with a quilt.
▪ At night, they pile on the bed with me like a quilt.
▪ I saw the movie once but read the book several times, reading it under my quilt late into the night.
▪ I sewed curtains and quilts and the boys were allowed to choose their own colour schemes and furnishings.
▪ Replacing Gwen Bear on the quilt, she got ready for bed.
▪ Stephen was still in bed but sitting up and there were books on Vangmoor all over the quilt.
▪ The witness began to cry, and said they had a quilt and other little things.
▪ When he opened the door to the room, she was in bed with the quilt pulled up to her neck.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quilt

Quilt \Quilt\, n. [OE. quilte, OF. cuilte, L. culcita ? bed, cushion, mattress. Cf. 2d Counterpoint, Cushion.] Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover.

The beds were covered with magnificent quilts.
--Arbuthnot.

Quilt

Quilt \Quilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quilting.]

  1. To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.
    --Dryden.

  2. To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.

  3. To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
quilt

c.1300, "mattress with soft lining," from Anglo-French quilte, Old French cuilte, coute "quilt, mattress" (12c.), from Latin culcita "mattress, bolster," of unknown origin. Sense of "thick outer bed covering" is first recorded 1590s.

quilt

1550s, from quilt (n.). Related: Quilted; quilting. Quilting bee attested from 1824 (see bee).

Wiktionary
quilt

n. 1 A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design. 2 A quilted skirt worn by women. vb. 1 To construct a quilt. 2 To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.

WordNet
quilt
  1. n. bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together [syn: comforter, puff]

  2. v. stitch or sew together; "quilt the skirt"

  3. create by stitching together

Wikipedia
Quilt (disambiguation)

A quilt is a quilted blanket.

Quilt may also refer to:

  • Duvet, bedding consisting of a bag filled with feathers or other material
  • Quilting, a sewing technique
  • Quilt art, a visual fine art
  • Quilt (software), a system for managing patches
  • "The Quilt" TV Episode Family Matters (TV series) 1989
Quilt (band)

Quilt are a four-piece psychedelic indie rock band from Boston consisting of Anna Fox Rochinski (vocals/guitars), Shane Butler (vocals/guitars), Keven Lareau (vocals/bass) and John Andrews (vocals/drums). They have released three albums, an EP, and a handful of singles through Mexican Summer. The band tours internationally. The band writes collaboratively and share vocal duties. They were born out of a local improv scene, and combine elements of folk-rock, psychedelia and dream pop.

Quilt (album)

Quilt is the debut studio album by American psychedelic indie rock band Quilt, released on November 8, 2011 on Mexican Summer.

The album was engineered and produced by Jesse Gallagher in Cambridge, Massachusetts in Summer 2010 and Summer 2011 and was mastered by Jeff Lipton and mastering assistant Maria Rice in Newton, Massachusetts in Winter 2010 and Summer 2011.

Quilt

A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of three layers of fiber: a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back, combined using the technique of quilting, the process of sewing the three layers together. Occasionally, the three layers of the quilt are tied together using evenly spaced knots rather than sewn. This unique process of binding three layers of fiber together distinguishes quilts from other types of blankets, although in modern British English, an unquilted duvet or comforter may also be called a "quilt." Historically, quilts were frequently used as bedcovers; this use persists today, but in the twenty-first century, quilts are also frequently displayed as non-utilitarian works of art.

Where a single piece of fabric is used for the top of a quilt (a wholecloth quilt), the key decorative element is likely to be the pattern of stitching, but where the top is pieced from a patchwork of smaller fabric pieces, the pattern and color of the pieces will be important to the design.

Historically, quilts were frequently used as bedcovers or served other functional purposes. However, the work involved in creating them and their decorative possibilities has led to their cultural importance in many places and times, and they are increasingly also treated as a visual art form.

Quilt (software)

Quilt is a software utility for managing a series of changes to the source code of any computer program. Such changes are often referred to as " patches" or "patch sets", and essentially Quilt takes an arbitrary number of patches and turns them into a single patch. In doing so, quilt makes it easier for other programmers to test and evaluate the different changes before they are permanently inserted into the source code.

Tools of this type are very important for distributed software development, in which many programmers collaborate to test and build a single large codebase. For example, quilt is heavily used by the maintainers of the Linux kernel.

Quilt evolved from a set of patch-management scripts originally written by Linux kernel developer Andrew Morton, and was developed by Andreas Grünbacher for maintaining Linux kernel customizations for SuSE Linux. It is now being developed as a community effort, hosted at the GNU Savannah project repository and distributed as free software (its license is GNU General Public License v2 or later). Quilt's name originated from patchwork quilt.

Quilt has been incorporated into dpkg, Debian's package manager and is one of the standard source formats supported from the Debian "squeeze" release onwards. This source format is identified as "3.0 (quilt)" by dpkg. Quilt is also integrated into the Buildroot, which is notably used by OpenWrt.

Mercurial queues (mq), as an extension of the Mercurial revision control system, provides similar functionality.

Usage examples of "quilt".

Gerry Brell came into the light wearing a pink quilted robe with big white lapels, her blonde hair tousled, eyes squinting in the light.

She buttoned her quilted jacket, put on a pair of biker goggles, tied a Montagnard scarf around her neck and face, and put on a black fur-trimmed leather hat with earflaps.

Montagnard biker costumes: leather jacket for me, quilted jacket for Susan, fur-trimmed leather hats, and Montagnard scarves.

He had jeered at the idea that Miss Musser had anything worth stealing, but Mary Jo had mentioned quilts and china and crystal .

Between the two of them, little Plummer and big, stretched of late a tie woven of sheets and a gorgeous quilt of a thousand bits.

Deputy Presser lifted the quilt with his long flashlight and looked at Dale for an explanation.

Then she wiggled her body, it hidden by the quilt, over toward the centre of the bed, over toward Prew, to give Angelo more room at the edge, and smiled up at him again, snugly.

If you are afraid that you are going to make a mistake in one of your creative efforts and therefore keep procrastinating, remind yourself that the Amish deliberately put a mistake in every quilt to honor the fact that no human is perfect.

Alain scooped her into his arms, grabbed her quilt of down by its corner, and carried her into his bed chamber.

Wool clothing lined with silk, old-fashioned trunkhose, and ankle-high shoon of quilted doeskin were not enough to keep the chill from his old bones this dank, dismal day, so he had had a fire laid and lit on the hearth and also had fired a small brass brazier nearby on the tabletop over which to warm his hands from time to time.

He made a sound of confused urgency, not quite a cry, and before Roger could stir, Brianna had shot out of bed like a guided missile, snatching the boy from his quilt and fumbling one-handed with his clothing.

She must have drifted into a fitful, teary sleep on the quilt because she remembered dreaming of Thomas and suddenly being in his arms.

She calls the doctor sir Peter Teazle and picks buttercups off the quilt.

Lysette laughed as she pulled out a folded quilt, a sumptuous trapunto design of delicate rococo swirls, vines, and flowers.

He wore a tentlike garment that resembled a crazy quilt stitched together from countless scraps of expensive fabric: velvets, satins, brocades, lace, leathers, even bits of tapestry, trapunto work, and see-through tulle embroidered in gold and silver.