Forms: 4–7 cou-, coverled, -lyd, (7–8 coverlaid), 6– coverlid. [A variant of prec., with different analysis of the second part.] = prec.

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a. 1300.  [see COVERLET 1].

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c. 1450.  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 742/16. Hoc cooportorium, a coverlyd.

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1589.  Hay any Work, 33. Fling a couerled on him.

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1676.  Hobbes, Iliad, XVIII. 323. And on him laid a fair white Coverled.

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1707.  trans. C’tess D’Aunoy’s Wks., 508. She wrapp’d her self up in her Coverlaid.

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1765.  Lond. Chron., 3 Jan., 9. Blankets and coverlids were distributed to the necessitous poor.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 174. The poor supplied the place of rich stuffs with blankets and coverlids.

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1862.  Lytton, Str. Story, II. 184. The bed, with its silken coverlid.

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  b.  transf. and fig.

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1654.  Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. xv. 253. Having nothing but the spangled Coverlid of Heaven over him.

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1658.  Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1070. This field Spider … stretching forth his sheet with a Coverlaid.

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1854.  Ruskin, Lect. Archit., i. 34. The very soul of the cottage … is in its thick impenetrable coverlid of close thatch.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. XII. ix. 201. Under a coverlid of London Fog.

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