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Quilt or Duvet
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Not really a question more or a poll.I have always said quilt when referring to the padded white thing that keeps you warm on your bed but I know it varies.So quilt or duvet?
Also put if you are from the north south or the midlands :)
Also put if you are from the north south or the midlands :)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I think of a quilt as having the back and top stitched together, whether the stitching creates squares or just one central panel; when you pick a quilt up, the filling doesn't all fall to one end; and it is complete in itself, it does not have a separate cover.
A duvet is the other thing.
I am from the South East.
Bizarrely, although 'duvet' is a French word; the primary meaning is 'down, soft feathers' ; the French don't call one a duvet at all. To them it's 'une couette' (as I discovered when trying buy one !)
A duvet is the other thing.
I am from the South East.
Bizarrely, although 'duvet' is a French word; the primary meaning is 'down, soft feathers' ; the French don't call one a duvet at all. To them it's 'une couette' (as I discovered when trying buy one !)
If anyone is interested this is an easy way put on a duvet cover. Turn duvet cover inside out. Reach arms inside to the far corners, and with each hand hold onto one of the corners of the duvet. So you now have the corners where they will be orientated with the duvet. Then, while still gripping the cover corner plus the duvet corners, shake the cover down as you pull the duvet up inside it, so the cover is turning the right way out. Do it up.
As Rowan says, they were called 'Continental Quilts' when they first made their appearance on this side of the Channel. I think that was to protect us from those fancy foreign words........
I was brought up in E. Midlands/W. E. Anglia.........by parents from the NW, so make of that what you will.
Now all my beds have 'Duvets'.
I was brought up in E. Midlands/W. E. Anglia.........by parents from the NW, so make of that what you will.
Now all my beds have 'Duvets'.