blanket
/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/ nom A2En français : couverture
- A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting. · The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
- A covering layer of anything. · The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
- A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed. · A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
- A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Pluriel blankets
Dans la bibliothèque
Some blankets rolled in a waterproof lay upon that very stone slab upon which Neolithic man had once slumbered.
All the little wood things--the ferns and the satin leaves and the crackerberries--have gone to sleep, just as if somebody had tucked them away until spring under a blanket of leaves.
When Anne got home that night she stacked all her textbooks away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key into the blanket box.
So sudden and violent was the fit that the unfortunate prisoner was unable to complete the sentence; a violent convulsion shook his whole frame, his eyes started from their sockets, his mouth was drawn on one side, his cheeks became purple, he struggled, foamed, dashed himself about, and uttered the most dreadful cries, which, however, Dantès prevented from being heard by covering his head with the blanket.
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