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[ adjective ] made of layers of fabric held together by patterned stitching

Used in print

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

It was amazing how they had herded together for protection : an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper , rising from the breakfast_table ; a gross boy in his teens , shuffling in from the kitchen with a sandwich in his hands ; a girl in her twenties , fat and sullen , descending the marble staircase ; then all four gathering on the sofa to face the inquisitor .

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thick

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