quilt
/kwɪlt/noun
A warm bed cover made of two layers of cloth with soft padding stitched between them, often in a decorative pattern.
Example sentences
- “She pulled the patchwork quilt up to her chin on the cold night.”
- “My grandmother sewed this quilt from scraps of our old clothes.”
'Patchwork quilt' is the common pairing, and it doubles as a metaphor: a patchwork quilt of fields seen from a plane.