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Coverlet vs Eiderdown - What's the difference?

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Coverlet is a related term of eiderdown.


As nouns the difference between coverlet and eiderdown

is that coverlet is a blanket used as a bed covering, usually quilted while eiderdown is (uncountable) the down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.

coverlet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A blanket used as a bed covering, usually quilted.

    • eiderdown

    English

    Alternative forms

    *eider down

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.
  • (countable) A quilt stuffed with this down.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I entered. It was a very small room, overcrowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown , and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep.
  • *1851 ,
    • The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven’s sake to quit—the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.