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duvet

noun
🔊/ˈduːveɪ/
🔊/ˈduːveɪ/, 🔊/duːˈveɪ/
(North American English also comforter)
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  1. a large cloth bag that is filled with feathers or other soft material and that you have on top of you in bed to keep yourself warm羽绒被
    • a duvet cover (= a cover that you can wash, that you put over a duvet)羽绒被套
    Extra Examples
    • He flung back the duvet and got out of bed.他忽地掀开羽绒被下了床。
    • He snuggled down under the warm duvet.他舒适地躺在暖和的羽绒被里。
    • She climbed into bed and pulled the duvet over her.她爬上床，拉过羽绒被盖到身上。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • double
    • king-size
    • single
    • …
    verb + duvet
    • pull
    • fling back
    • kick off
    • …
    duvet + noun
    • cover
    preposition
    • beneath a/​the duvet
    • under a/​the duvet
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    Word Originmid 18th cent.: from French, literally ‘down’.