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# duvet

«duvet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big soft bed cover filled with feathers or other soft…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a duvet, duvets)

### meaning for a pupil

A duvet is a big soft bed cover filled with feathers or other soft material, which you sleep under to keep warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duvet/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life at home, children make their bed by straightening the duvet; a duvet cover is washed regularly. In stories, characters snuggle under a duvet. Phrases: duvet cover, snuggle under the duvet, duvet day.

### examples

- I snuggled under my warm duvet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duvet/#x1)
- Mum put a clean duvet cover on my bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duvet/#x2)
- My duvet has dinosaurs on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duvet/#x3)
- In winter I use a thicker duvet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duvet/#x4)
- Shake the duvet to make it fluffy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duvet/#x5)
- I made my bed and straightened the duvet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duvet/#x6)

### note

Said DOO-vay; the t is silent (it comes from French). In the USA people often say comforter; in Australia and NZ, a duvet is often called a doona (Australia) or a continental quilt. Countable: a duvet, duvets.

### In the corpora

- [Leo built a secret den under his duvet: tablet, brightness turned down, sound off, one eye on the door.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/418-sleep-and-school-mornings/0/)
- [One night Mum finds her crying under the duvet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/26/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «duvet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duvet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.