counterpoint

1) A bed cover, often richly decorated.

These were quilted items and the first element in the word shares the origin of quilt: 1524 oon cowntter poynte of tapestre warke, Bordley

c.1537 Item ij large covers or counter poyntes lined with canvas, and of Aras warke, one of them wrougth with som sylke, and parte with gold wyer, Halifax

1544 ij coverlettes, one counterpointe, Clint. The change to counterpane is evident in the 1600s, no doubt influenced by the word ‘cover-pane’, a covering cloth, dealt with separately.

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