coverlid

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English

Etymology

Variant form of coverlet.

Noun

coverlid (plural coverlids)

  1. A coverlet.
    • 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 93:
      [T]aking some clean towels out of my night-sack, I spread them over the coverlid, on which tired nature found repose, in spite of the previous disgust.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Sick Room”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 141:
      The physician took his hand, and strove to draw him aside; but the attempt caught the eye of the sufferer; she strove to raise herself, and extend her hand to her father, but it dropped heavily on the coverlid.
    • 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 9:
      'Here are your clean clothes,' she went on, stroking my coverlid with her brown hand as she spoke.

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