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Definition of Coverlids
1. coverlid [n] - See also: coverlid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coverlids
Literary usage of Coverlids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through Norway with a knapsack by William Mattieu Williams (1876)
"... Norwegian beds and sheep-skin coverlids — I succeed in living within my income
at the Quamen station — The beard provocative of refinement — Female ..."
2. Indian antiquities: or, Dissertations, relative to the ancient geographic by Thomas Maurice (1806)
"... coverlids or carpets for their dining-beds, was £6458. 6s. Sd. Nor could their
houses themselves be of mean fabric or decoration ; since that of Crassus ..."
3. Original Letters from Russia, 1825-1828 by Charlotte Anne Albinia Disbrowe (1878)
"own sheets, coverlids, towels, etc., and I suppose basins and jugs, for I saw
none provided. Lord Castlereagh has domesticated himself in this family. ..."
4. Plantation and Frontier Documents: 1649-1863: Illustrative of Industrial by John R. Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1909)
"I am also ready to accommodate the public with diaper carpets, double coverlids,
and summer counterpanes; weaving at the house of Maj Buchanan, ..."
5. Chronicles of the Crusades: Being Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of by Richard, Jean Joinville, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Maqrīzī (1848)
"In the last will of Jane, queen of France and Navarre, in tk? year 1304, sheets,
coverlids, and counterpanes are named among the furniture of value ..."
6. The History of Guernsey: With Occasional Notices of Jersey, Alderney, and by Jonathan Duncan (1841)
"They were allowed three candles, three hard pillows, and three ragged coverlids,
which swarmed with vermin, and on these they lay down to sleep. ..."
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