a beautiful counterpane that was a family heirloom
Recent Examples on the WebBeneath wall text describing Báthory’s ghoulish crimes and her macabre punishment, bloody mannequins in nightshirts, one with its throat hideously cut, sprawl across a counterpane. Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022 The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane. Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013
Word History
Etymology
alteration of Middle English countrepointe, modification of Middle French coute pointe, literally, embroidered quilt