Other forms: quilts
A quilt is a thick padded bed covering. A patchwork quilt, under the quilt, quilt the layers.
It is three layers stitched through: a top, a filling and a backing, and the stitching is what keeps the filling from bunching. Patchwork quilting became a serious folk art in America, and the AIDS Memorial Quilt is the largest piece of community folk art in the world.
1nounquiltA thick padded bed covering.
“On cold nights she slept under a thick quilt that her grandmother had sewn.”
quilt is a covering.
Old French cuilte comes from Latin culcita, a mattress or cushion. Counterpane is a distant relative.
Latin
culcita
Old French
coilte
Anglo-Norman
quilte
Middle English
quilte
English, today
quilt
Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. a doublet of quoit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA