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quilted
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Word definitions for quilted in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Having the characteristics of a quilt; specifically, having two layers of cloth sewn together, with a layer of padding between them. 2 Having characteristics that approximate the above to some degree, eg, quilted toilet paper. v (en-past of: quilt )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. made of layers of fabric held together by patterned stitching
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quilt \Quilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quilted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Quilting .] 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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a quilted bathrobe EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A quilted armour of dull gold covered him amply. ▪ A quilted spread of ground descending an easy slope to the railway lines. ▪ Also popular for travelling are quilted , overblown ...
Usage examples of quilted.
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.
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.
The round, almost visorless cap, heavily and softly quilted in protection against the helmet of his armor.
Its hand-carved posts were topped with a white canopy, and the bed was covered with aspread of quilted satin.
He reached out and undid the top button of the quilted jacket Beka wore to keep out the chilly air of the Suivan domes.
In my blackwork bodice, white quilted petticoats, veil, and glazed kid gloves, I would descend upon him like an avenging angel.
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.
The bed was covered with a quilted satin spread and the phone rested on a chinoiserie nightstand.
Sher Dil sliding down the steep slope of shale to the river below, picking himself up at the bottom and plunging into the water, and then they moved out of the swirling smoke to surround him, small and misshapen in their quilted uniforms, each carrying a rifle that seemed too large for him, an old-fashioned sword bayonet on the end.
Worse still are the monstrous doublets, reaching down to the middle of the thighs, so hard quilted, stuffed, bombasted, and sewed that the wearer can hardly stoop down in them.
The bed on which she sat was a carved mahogany Eastlake half-tester, made up with a quilted satin bedcover and piled with gaudy fringed pillows, more than enough to suffocate under.
They had put lead weights in the padded hems of their quilted robes to make them swing.
His imbalanced frame was wrapped in a paisley smoking jacket with a quilted green collar.