{"id":7916,"date":"2012-11-24T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T13:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2012-11-24T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T13:19:03","slug":"downies-duvets-and-slumberdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7916","title":{"rendered":"Downies, duvets and slumberdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to a programme on Radio Scotland today I heard mention of <strong>downies<\/strong>, which seems to be a Scottish word for <strong>duvet<\/strong>. These days I usually call these things duvets, but when I was a child I had a slumberdown, which I think might be a trade name. I&#8217;ve also heard them called quilts or continental quilts, and think they&#8217;re called comforters in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>The definition of duvet in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/view\/Entry\/58738?redirectedFrom=duvet#eid\">OED<\/a> is &#8220;A quilt stuffed with eider-down or swan&#8217;s-down&#8221;, and it comes from the French word <em>duvet<\/em> (down), from <em>dumet<\/em>, a diminutive of Old French <em>dum<\/em> (down).<\/p>\n<p>What do you call these things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to a programme on Radio Scotland today I heard mention of downies, which seems to be a Scottish word for duvet. These days I usually call these things duvets, but when I was a child I had a slumberdown, which I think might be a trade name. I&#8217;ve also heard them called quilts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}