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bedclothes
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synonyms: ~coverlet, ~counterpane ???
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Definition:Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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I would not undress myself, but lay on the bed-clothes, and in half an hour stole out, when I thought the crew was at dinner, and getting to the side of the ship,
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, ‘Let me in!’Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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"Ain't you a sweet-scented dandy, though? A bed; and bedclothes; and a look'n'-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor—and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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I must have made some sound of distress, for there was a sudden upheaval of bedclothes as the stranger in my bed vaulted to the floor with the heartstopping suddenness of a pheasant rising underfoot.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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