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coverlid|ˈkʌvəlɪd|
Forms: 4–7 cou-, coverled, -lyd, (7–8 coverlaid), 6– coverlid.
[A variant of prec., with different analysis of the second part.]
a. = prec.
a1300[see coverlet 1]. c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 742/16 Hoc cooportorium, a coverlyd. 1589Hay any Work 33 Fling a couerled on him. 1676Hobbes Iliad xviii. 323 And on him laid a fair white Coverled. 1707tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Wks. 508 She wrapp'd her self up in her Coverlaid. 1765Lond. Chron. 3 Jan. 9 Blankets and coverlids were distributed to the necessitous poor. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 174 Blankets and coverlids. 1862Lytton Str. Story II. 185 The bed, with its silken coverlid.
b. transf. and fig.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xv. 253 Having nothing but the spangled Coverlid of Heaven over him. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1070 This field Spider..stretching forth his sheet with a Coverlaid. 1854Ruskin Lect. Archit. i. 34 The very soul of the cottage..is in its thick impenetrable coverlid of close thatch. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. xii. ix. 201 Under a coverlid of London Fog. |