A soft quilt filled with down or synthetic material, used as a bed covering instead of sheets and blankets.
From French 'duvet' meaning down (the soft feathers), from Old French 'dumet,' possibly from a Germanic source. The bedding sense entered English in the 1950s via Scandinavian design influences.
The duvet revolutionized bed-making by reducing it to a single shake - this simple Scandinavian innovation spread across Europe in the 1960s and transformed the daily ritual of making beds from a complex arrangement to one simple motion.
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