Noun: quilt
| Singular | quilt |
| Plural | quilts |
Sample Sentences
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My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.
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Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout. Early on […] she alternated alternated jokes and stanzas, providing a wonderful quilt of her musical and story-telling talents. [1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12:]
Nouns inflected like quilt
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit. See: Middle English Nouns '
quilte', Middle English Nouns '
quilte', French Nouns '
couette', Latin Nouns '
culcita'.
Verbs referencing "quilt"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
kvilt, Spanish Nouns
cuilta, Galician Nouns
cócedra, Zulu Nouns
ikhwilithi, German Nouns
Kolter.