Other forms: duvets
A duvet is the thick soft quilt you sleep under. A duvet cover, under the duvet, a summer duvet.
It replaced blankets in Britain from the 1960s, and the whole point is that one layer does the job of several. Warmth is measured in tog: about four and a half for summer and thirteen and a half for winter. The French word means down.
1nounduvetThe thick soft quilt you sleep under.
“On cold nights she curls up under a thick duvet.”
duvet is a bedcover.
Also accepted in games: comforter
French duvet means down, the soft feathers of young birds.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰewh₂- — to smoke, fume, raise dust
Proto-Germanic
*dūnaz — down
Old Norse
dúnn — down, down feather
Old French
duvet — down, the feathers of young birds
Middle French
duvet
French
duvet
English, today
duvet
Built from
From French duvet, from Middle French duvet, from Old French duvet (“down, the feathers of young birds”), alteration of dumet, dumect, which in turn derives from dum, dun (“down, feathers”), from Old Norse dúnn (“down, down feather”), from Proto-Germanic dūnaz (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, fume, raise dust”). Cognate with Icelandic dúnn (“down”), Danish dun (“down”), German Daune (“down”), Dutch dons (“down”). More at down.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA