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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bedspread
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had a large room on the second floor, with bright-green walls and a tangerine bedspread.
▪ Hugh lay awake in a tangle of candlewick bedspread.
▪ I picked up the package of gum from the bedspread and held it in my hand and told him Thank you.
▪ Julie London selects her favourites 1 Moti-rib 100 percent cotton bedspread in Brick colourway.
▪ The bedspread is light, ribbed, with little tassels on the bottom.
▪ The powdered sugar fell like fine snow on to the green bedspread.
▪ We kissed, we lay down on the worn chenille bedspread and slowly got out of our clothes.
▪ You might not mind fur on blankets and bedspreads, but the next guest could be allergic to animals.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bedspread

Bedspread \Bed"spread`\, n. A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. [U. S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bedspread

also bed-spread, 1845, American English, from bed (n.) + spread (n.).

Wiktionary
bedspread

n. 1 The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket. 2 A coverlet.

WordNet
bedspread

n. decorative cover for a bed [syn: bedcover, bed cover, bed covering, counterpane, spread]

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Usage examples of "bedspread".

English and Mandarin, the pictograms sewn into every cushion, every curtain, every bedspread in the place.

Mike had removed the bedspread from the enormous bed revealing pale blue sheets and scalloped pillow-slips to match.

I got through the morning, the Wreck took me home, I fell asleep several steps from the top of the stairs but my feet carried me the rest of the way into my bedroom and I woke up at three, lying slantways across my unmade bed, my feet hanging over one end, my cheek painfully creased and my bruised jaw made sorer by a wad of bedspread.

She climbed the creaking stairs and sat down on her unhemmed bedspread.

He ran into Alkides, the mercenary artilleryman, with a strip of blue cloth that seemed to have come from a bedspread and a strip of red from the bottom of a petticoat.

Bundled ignominiously into a candlewick bedspread and then dragged bumpily along the corridor, they protested loudly.

Going over to the bed and the box that she had laid on the bedspread, she lifted the lid and pulled out the slip, corselette and headpiece she knew she would find there.

The red room contains a bed, upon which are white satin-style sheets and an oxblood bedspread.

I jammed a chair under the doorknob, dragged the bedspread into the living room, and stretched out on the smaller section of the couch.

I leaned over and slid the mirror from beneath the couch, keeping the bedspread over my arms, and pulled a glass vial from the pocket of my jeans.

I propped myself in the corner and wrapped the bedspread around my shoulders, leaving one hand free to hold my coffee.

A floral bedspread covered the bed, and from her position on the floor Sheila could only see the edge of one of the pillow shams.

A good broad bed stood with its head against one wall of the simple chamber, made comfortable with a feather bed and quilt and a huge bedspread embroidered with the roes of Varre and the black hounds of Lavas.

But she only bowed her head and turned away from him to kneel again by the bed, hands clasped atop the beautifully-embroidered bedspread, forehead resting on her hands as she murmured a prayer.

Alain walked to the bed, set a hand on the bedspread, and looked back at Lavastine.