Are all comforters quilts?

[Osculater]

Your friends will have to pay full price. If you let them know you are @Osculater on Sherdog they'll give you a sweetheart deal

Noice!!

 

[Kryptt]

 

[Jack Reacheround]

a gay blanket I think

Close. It’s an AIDS blanket.

 

[William Huggins]

Close. It’s an AIDS blanket.

As a quilt is a grid and AIDS was first called GRID, you're indeed correct..........

Maybe AIDS was first spread on quilts given to homeless rent boys working in San Francisco.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

The first I'd heard of the term "comforter" was in the movie Superbad, sounds like a wanking tool tbh

 

[William Huggins]

The first I'd heard of the term "comforter" was in the movie Superbad, sounds like a wanking tool tbh

It's when the "comforter" becomes uncomfortable it's time to wash.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I always just called them “quilt” regardless of whether or not they’re quilted as that’s all I ever knew them as being called. I only ever heard them called “duvet” or “comforter” after I met my wife at age 21.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

At lunch today a colleague advised that when he was younger, he had a Toronto Maple Leafs "quilt".

I puzzlingly asked him whether it was a regular comforter, or an actual quilt. He insisted they were the same thing. I insisted they were not.

Thankfully, Wikipedia was here to save us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt

According to Wikipedia: "In modern English, the word "quilt" can also be used to refer to an unquilted duvet or comforter."

How can a "quilt" refer to an "unquilted" object? That's literally demonic, and akin to the modern use of "literally" to sometimes mean "figuratively".

What say you? Do you use the term "quilt" to refer to any type of comforter? Can we all agree that all quilts must be quilted, and that an unquilted object cannot be a quilt?

Admittedly, English is not my native language but I never read the word "comforter". And I disapprove of it.

 

[StonedLemur]

I just call all them blankets, but that's just me.

 

[blaseblase]

Non-US: school
US: school

Non-US: university
US: school

Actually it's called college. Not from the US I take it? University is also an appropriate term but not one you would use in casual conversation.

 

[rearnakedchoke]

I don’t want to make any blanket statements, but I’ll throw this out there.

They are not the same!!

 

[blaseblase]

Never realised how big this phenomenon was.

Non-US: cleat
US: cleat

I don't know what that is but it ain't a cleat

 

[blaseblase]

Non-US: waiting for
US: waiting on

Not really. There's nothing wrong with saying you're waiting for the train in the U.S.

 

[Osculater]

Actually it's called college. Not from the US I take it? University is also an appropriate term but not one you would use in casual conversation.

There are colleges in a university but there are no universities in a college

 

[Fedorgasm]

Idk but how come those Mexican blankets make you itchy?

They don't call it the flea market for nothing

 

[Madmick]

At lunch today a colleague advised that when he was younger, he had a Toronto Maple Leafs "quilt".

I puzzlingly asked him whether it was a regular comforter, or an actual quilt. He insisted they were the same thing. I insisted they were not.

Thankfully, Wikipedia was here to save us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt

According to Wikipedia: "In modern English, the word "quilt" can also be used to refer to an unquilted duvet or comforter."

How can a "quilt" refer to an "unquilted" object? That's literally demonic, and akin to the modern use of "literally" to sometimes mean "figuratively".

What say you? Do you use the term "quilt" to refer to any type of comforter? Can we all agree that all quilts must be quilted, and that an unquilted object cannot be a quilt?

I don't associate the two, I think like you. However, for what it's worth, the most accurate definition for "Quilt" from the Unabridged OED is below. By this definition, a comforter conforms:

1.a An article of bed-furniture, consisting essentially of two large pieces of woven material having a layer of some soft substance (such as wool, flock, or down) placed between them; originally, an article of this kind for lying on (now obs.); in later use, a coverlet of similar make, esp. one in which the lining is kept in place by stitches or lines of stitching passing through the whole (the mediæval quiltpoint or counterpoint, q.v.); hence, any thick outer bed-covering, a counterpane.