Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

Usage examples of comforter.

The best that could be arranged for the President were a small bedroom and sitting room in a boardinghouse kept by two maiden sisters named Barnes, one of whom provided the ailing Adams with a down comforter, while the other dosed him with a purgative of rhubarb and calomel.

Functional, clean and even well-decorated with a Battenberg lace comforter on the four-poster and matching curtains on the window.

The fields stretched out to the horizon like a deep green comforter quilted with chrome yellow patches of canola and spashes of iridescent blue flax.

Once he opened the window and flung himself down on a pile of featherbeds and comforters, it was rather pleasant up in the attic.

I watched over the edge of the comforter and mattress, holding my glasses in place, completely distracted from the minor-D shriek of the vacuum below.

Her bedding had been ripped off her mattress, her comforter vomiting up pieces of hypoallergenic foam.

Inside, he laid Kerrie on the living-room couch and wrapped her in a lavender comforter, tucking it around her tightly, warmly.

We pressed a series of gelatin-coated photographic papers onto the comforter with a hot iron and then treated the papers to find the presence of nitrates, which would be found if there existed nitrocellulose on the comforter that had been incompletely burned.

They obeyed and for nine days and nine nights they stayed together, asking and praying for the Comforter, the Paraclete, the One to come whom Jesus had spoken of.

And what he wants, what he longs for, as he huddles there on the stiff black cushions, drenched through and trembling in the wintry wind, are his old down comforter, his snuggies, his hot water bottle.

Many of the stallkeepers have in despair deserted the toy business, and gone in for comforters, kepis, and list soles.

Saturday morning, they were astonished to find Miss Matheson waiting for them at the front of the classroom, sitting in her wood-and- wicker wheelchair, wrapped up in a thermogenic comforter.

Moreover, Lydia and Florent, to his wounded sensibility of a demi-pariah, formed the only pleasant corner in his life--were the fresh and youthful comforters of his widowerhood and of his misanthropy.

And, first, old Questioning himself was set to the bar for he was the receiver, the entertainer, and comforter of these doubters, that by nation were outlandish men: then he was bid to hearken to his charge, and was told that he had liberty to object, if he had ought to say for himself.

But in those moments of tragic silence, When the wine and bread were passed, Came the reconciliation for us-- Us the ploughmen and the hewers of wood, Us the peasants, brothers of the peasant of Galilee-- To us came the Comforter And the consolation of tongues of flame!