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A comforter (in American English), next known as a doona in Australian English,[1] or a continental quilt (or understandably quilt) or duvet in English, is a type of bedding made of two lengths of fabric or covering sewn together and filled as soon as insulative materials for warmth, traditionally by the side of or feathers, wool or cotton batting, silk, or polyester and other all along swap fibers. once quilts, comforters are generally laid exceeding a top bed sheet (and sometimes moreover blankets). Duvets are substitute form of quilt, traditionally filled bearing in mind feathers, while in the past the late 20th century often made of synthetic fibres or all along alternatives.

A comforter is sometimes covered for guidance and prolonged use. Comforter covers are thesame in principle to pillowcases, usually closed afterward zippers or buttons.

In the united Kingdom the term comforter is not generally used. It is otherwise called a quilt (or continental quilt), duvet or an eiderdown. A duvet differs in that it is thicker and usually used without blankets or new sheets.

Sometimes a comforter is sold as ration of a "bed in a bag", usually a charge of some sort later handles that contains an entire set of bedding in the same or a matching pattern: comforter and summit sheet, fitted sheet, pillowcase(s), and perhaps pillow sham(s). Some sets have a duvet and duvet lid (more popular in Europe) in area of a comforter and top sheet. More deluxe sets may total a bed skirt and pillows.

Comforters are usually used in the winter season like it is enormously cold, although a variety of every other thicknesses means that they can be used in other seasons as well, next lighter examples bodily used in warmer weather. Due to the thickness of a comforter or the amount of down/feathers or supplementary filling it has, a person is insulated adjacent to cold.

Comforter sizes match in the same way as bed sizes: twin, full, queen, king, and cal-king. Comforter sizes run slightly larger than mattress sizes to permit for draping beyond the sides of the bed. Typical sizes in the allied States for comforters are:

Twin Bed = 64 in (163 cm) width 87 in (221 cm) length
Queen Bed / Full = 87 in (221 cm) width 87 in (221 cm) length
King Bed = 101 in (257 cm) width 90 in (229 cm) length

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