Early portraits of kings show them clad in thick quilted skirts falling to the ankles, while quilted turbans covered their heads.
These "punkin-hoods" were quilted with great rolls of woollen wadding and drawn tight between the rolls with strong cords.
Sometimes each woman furnished a neatly pieced square, and all met at the parsonage and joined and quilted the coverlet.
This Informant went to Rochester on Thursday last and was seized there the next morning by meanes of a Maid, who found his Gold Quilted up in his Jackett hanging with his coate.
At length the men in quilted armour went up "per order.
The rider was armed with a large spear, and he had to be assisted to mount his horse, as his quilted cloak was too heavy; it required two men to lift him on.
When leaving their houses, and walking to the market or gardens, a jereed or aba is thrown round them, and a red cap, or a neatly quilted cotton white one, completes the dress.
He got two balls through his breast; one went through his body and both sides of the tobe; the other went through and lodged in the quilted armour opposite the shoulders.
Seated on the kang, with papers spread about and brushes and ink pot directly under the light, in short quilted coat and simple black cap, was Kang; a serenely patient figure, quietly working.
The child was dressed in a quilted robe of bright flowered silk, the skirt flaring like a bed about the ankles, the sleeves extending down over the hands.
The figure of him is recumbent: with a mitre on his head, and a quilted mail for his apron.
It was barely half-past nine that night when a fly dashed up to the door of the Sheridans' house, and a lady wearing a travelling-cloak lined with quilted pink satin sprang to the ground and battered at the door of the house.
And I shall wear the travelling-cloak that is quilted with the pink satin.
They possess a strong force of cavalry, clothed in suits of thick quilted armour, with helmets of the same material, easily penetrated however by bullets, though impervious to arrows.
Several camels, loaded with quilted cotton armour, both for men and horses, were in attendance.
Their quilted cloaks were so heavy that it required two men to mount a cavalier.
He had been shot by two balls, which went through his body, one coming out and the other lodging in his quilted armour.
A rosy, dark-eyed face looked out from the faded green calash, a gayly flowered gown was looped up over a blue quilted petticoat, and a red camlet cloak hung down behind.
His black velvet bonnet was lined with steel, quilted between the metal and his head, and thus constituted a means of defence which might safely be trusted to.
However, he had to check himself, for Madame Dieulafay was passing before them, in her box lined with quilted silk.
But Francesco's quilted brigandine had stood the test of steel, and the point of that assassin's dagger glanced harmlessly aside, doing no worse hurt than a rent in the silk surface of the garment.
Their caps were mostly conical in shape, made of quilted cloth and ornamented with a silken tassel attached to the apex.
The door is of several thicknesses of stitched and quilted felt, and hangs like a curtain over the entrance.
I never quilted any thing in my life, and I hate the sight of a patch-work bed-cover.
She quilted assiduously and neatly, and assisted with great skill in the various operations of rolling, stretching, and pinning the quilt.
Nothing remains except the quilted bedroom slippers the gracious one is wearing.
She lost patience, and stamped her little foot in itsquilted satin slipper.
Knights sheathed in mail over quilted work, and wearing the great battle-helm, appeared invulnerable and able to encounter the most fearful odds, and even to rescue each other when dismounted amidst swarming enemies.
The quilted gambeson appearing below the chausses and drawn over the chaussons, with the additional protection for the knee-cap of an octagonal plate.
The mail shows beneath a thick quilted surcoat over which the great ill-fitting shoulder and other body defences are fixed.
In the mutilated effigy at Sandwich the thick quilted gambeson is distinctly seen at the knee and wrist underlying the mail, while the fine hauberk of plate overlies it, and the surcoat is worn over all.
Instances are recorded of twofold mail and the quilted coat being penetrated by them.
Cologne, Lorraine, Poitou produced weapons which are said to have pierced mail and quilted armour with ease.
A quilted coat was worn beneath the mail, if not a second one between the mail and plate armour.
Mr. Hewitt would appear to take the view that Buckram meant a quilted material; for, quoting from a roll of purchases made for the Court of Edward I.
Hauberks of different kinds, with padded or quilted pourpoints, having iron rings set edgeways, were generally worn.
Jacked or boiled leather, with quilted iron-work, was also in use for defending the arms and legs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quilted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
