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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
comforter
noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Job's comforter
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He supposed it was somewhere under the rug, perhaps held on to by old Josh as some sort of comforter.
▪ She was sprawled, hugging a sausage-shaped pillow like Linus' comforter.
▪ Sir Walter Raleigh trails his comforter about the muddy garden, a full-length Hilliard in miniature hose and padded pants.
▪ The comforters on the beds were abnormally plump.
▪ The feather comforter was neatly smoothed out on the bed and the pillow was precisely in its center.
▪ The first change came when he got upstairs and found Firebug rolling under the thick comforter with some one.
▪ The tranquiliser and the bottle are poor comforters when the time comes to part for ever from those we love.
▪ This kept my lower body warm, but I had to cover the rest of myself with a comforter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comforter

Comforter \Com"fort*er\, n.

  1. One who administers comfort or consolation.

    Let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
    --Shak.

  2. (Script.) The Holy Spirit, -- referring to his office of comforting believers.

    But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things.
    --John xiv. 26.

  3. A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow. [U. S.]

    The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
    --Pop. Sci. Monthly.

  4. A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.]

    Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
comforter

mid-14c., "one who consoles or comforts," from Anglo-French confortour (Old French comforteor), from Vulgar Latin *confortatorem, agent noun from Late Latin confortare (see comfort (v.)). As a kind of scarf, from 1823; as a kind of coverlet, from 1832.

Wiktionary
comforter

n. 1 A person who comforts someone who is suffering. 2 (US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt. 3 (old fashioned, mostly UK) A woollen scarf for winter.

WordNet
comforter
  1. n. commiserates with someone who has had misfortune [syn: sympathizer, sympathiser]

  2. a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies; "a reliever of anxiety"; "an allayer of fears" [syn: reliever, allayer]

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

  4. device used for an infant to suck or bite on [syn: pacifier, baby's dummy, teething ring]

Wikipedia
Comforter

A comforter (in American English), also known as a doona in Australian English, or a continental quilt (or simply quilt) or duvet in British English, is a type of bedding made of two lengths fabric or covering sewn together and filled with insulative materials for warmth, traditionally down or feathers, wool or cotton batting, silk, or polyester and other down alternative fibers. Like quilts, comforters are generally laid over a top bed sheet (and sometimes also blankets). Duvets are another form of quilt, traditionally filled with feathers, though since the late 20th century often made of synthetic fibres or down alternatives.

A comforter is sometimes covered for protection and prolonged use. Comforter covers are similar in principle to pillowcases, usually closed with zippers or buttons.

In the United Kingdom the term comforter is not generally used. It is instead called a quilt, duvet or an eiderdown. A duvet differs in that it is thicker and usually used without blankets or extra sheets.

Sometimes a comforter is sold as a "bed in a bag". This term usually denotes an entire set of bedding, including either a comforter or duvet with its cover.

Comforters are sometimes packaged in a set that also includes a bed skirt, pillow shams, and sometimes pillows.

The terminology comforter comes from the word comfort. Comforters are usually used in the winter season when it is very cold. Due to the thickness of a comforter or the amount of down/feathers or other filling it has, a person is insulated against cold.

Comforter sizes correspond with bed sizes: twin, full, queen, king, and cal-king. Comforter sizes run slightly larger than mattress sizes to allow for draping over the sides of the bed. Typical sizes in the United States for comforters are:

  • Twin = 64" (163 cm) width × 87" (221 cm) length
  • Queen / Full = 87" (221 cm) width × 87" (221 cm) length
  • King = 101" (257 cm) width × 90" (229 cm) length.
Comforter (disambiguation)

A comforter is a type of blanket. It may also refer to:

  • "Comforter" (song), a 1993 song by Shai
  • Holy Comforter, believed to be the Holy Spirit in Christianity
  • Pacifier, also known as a comforter, a rubber, plastic, or silicone nipple
  • Paraclete, a descriptive term used in the Gospel of John which may be translated in English as "counselor", "helper", or "comforter"
Comforter (song)

"Comforter" is a song by Shai, issued as the second single from their debut studio album ...If I Ever Fall in Love. The song was written by group members Carl Martin, Darnell Van Rensalier and Marc Gay, with Martin also handling production. The song peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified gold on for sales of 500,000 copies.

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!