blanket

250 pxA cat on a blanket.

Meanings

Noun

  • A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
  • A layer of anything.
  • A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
  • A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Adjective

Verb

Origin

  • From Middle English blanket, blonket, from Old Northern French blanket, blankete, blanquette (Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc. More at blank. Apparently cognate to blunket, plunket.

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