duvet

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From French duvet.

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Singular
duvet

Plural
duvets

duvet (plural duvets)

  1. (British, New Zealand) A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets.

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[edit] French

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From Old French, from Old Norse dunn (drove, gang)[1].

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duvet m (countable and uncountable; plural duvets)

  1. down (soft, fine feathers)
  2. down, fuzz (on face, peach, etc)
  3. (down-filled) sleeping bag
  4. duvet, continental quilt
  5. (Belgium, Switzerland) eiderdown

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  1. ^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 351, duvet