COUNTERPANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does counterpane mean? 

• COUNTERPANE (noun)
  The noun COUNTERPANE has 1 sense:

1. decorative cover for a bed

  Familiarity information: COUNTERPANE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTERPANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decorative cover for a bed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bed cover; bed covering; bedcover; bedspread; counterpane; spread

Hypernyms ("counterpane" is a kind of...):

bed clothing; bedclothes; bedding (coverings that are used on a bed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "counterpane"):

coverlet (a decorative bedspread (usually quilted))

quilted bedspread (a bedspread constructed like a thin quilt)

 Context examples 

It was the sweetest little room in the world, with a soft comfortable bed that had sheets of green silk and a green velvet counterpane.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Lucy was sleeping gently, but her breathing was stronger; I could see the counterpane move as her breast heaved.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This made such a very miserable piece of business of it, that I rolled myself up in a corner of the counterpane, and cried myself to sleep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled- up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her resolute effort threw back the lid, and gave to her astonished eyes the view of a white cotton counterpane, properly folded, reposing at one end of the chest in undisputed possession!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The bedclothes had not been turned down, but there was an indentation upon the counterpane which showed that some one had lain there.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had well-nigh persuaded himself that his fears were a foolish fancy, when his eyes fell upon that which sent the blood cold to his heart and left him gasping, with hands clutching at the counterpane.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)