QUILTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quilted mean? 

• QUILTED (adjective)
  The adjective QUILTED has 1 sense:

1. made of layers of fabric held together by patterned stitching

  Familiarity information: QUILTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUILTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made of layers of fabric held together by patterned stitching

Similar:

thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)

 Context examples 

Before I went to sleep, I gave him to understand that I had some valuable furniture in my box, too good to be lost: a fine hammock, a handsome field-bed, two chairs, a table, and a cabinet; that my closet was hung on all sides, or rather quilted, with silk and cotton; that if he would let one of the crew bring my closet into his cabin, I would open it there before him, and show him my goods.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

So busy was she on this day that she did not hear Laurie's ring nor see his face peeping in at her as she gravely promenaded to and fro, flirting her fan and tossing her head, on which she wore a great pink turban, contrasting oddly with her blue brocade dress and yellow quilted petticoat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The room was quilted on all sides, as well as the floor and the ceiling, to prevent any accident from the carelessness of those who carried me, and to break the force of a jolt, when I went in a coach.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The girl had lined it on all sides with the softest cloth she could get, well quilted underneath, furnished it with her baby’s bed, provided me with linen and other necessaries, and made everything as convenient as she could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)