quilt
pronunciation
How to pronounce quilt in British English:
UK [kwɪlt]
How to pronounce quilt in American English:
US [kwɪlt]
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- Noun:
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
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- Verb:
- stitch or sew together
- create by stitching together
Word Origin
- quilt
- quilt: [13] The ultimate source of quilt is Latin culcita ‘mattress’, which passed into English via Old French cuilte. Its function gradually evolved from that of a mattress for lying on to that of a coverlet for lying under. A long-standing characteristic of such quilts is that their stuffing is held in place by cross-stitching. This does not emerge as a distinct meaning of the verb quilt (‘sew padded cloth in a crisscross pattern’) until the mid-16th century, but it is reflected in the medieval Latin term culcita puncta ‘pricked mattress’ – that is, a mattress that has been stitched.This passed into English via Old French as counterpoint, which was subsequently altered, by association with pane ‘panel’, to counterpane [17].=> counterpane
- quilt (n.)
- 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 (v.)
- 1550s, from quilt (n.). Related: Quilted; quilting. Quilting bee attested from 1824 (see bee).
Example
- 1. The goal is to complete the quilt .
- 2. Then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt .
- 3. I decided then and there to hand these legends down to my own children , much the way another family might bequeath a cherished homemade quilt .
- 4. Similarly , my wife once made for me a gorgeous quilt based on the fascinating pattern of eisenstein primes .
- 5. I decided to avoid that orphanage in future , until I could find a way around the quilt scam .