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Counterpane

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket; a coverlet, bedspread.

    "My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side."

  2. 2
    decorative cover for a bed wordnet

Etymology

Corrupted from counterpoint, from the employment of pane (“a shaped figure in a coverlet”).

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