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== Etymology == The term arose from the generalization of a specific fabric called ''blanke'', a heavily [[nap (textile)|napped]] undyed woolen weave. A popular theory has that the name derives from an eponymous [[Thomas Blanket]] (Blanquette), a [[Flemish people|Flemish]] weaver who lived in [[Bristol]], [[Kingdom of England|England]], in the 14th century.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/03/24/archives/origin-of-blanket.html | work=The New York Times | title=Origin of Blanket | date=24 March 1901}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|jstor=1787694 |title=Factors in the Development of the Cotswold Woollen Industry | volume=90 | pages=349–362|last1=Beckinsale |first1=R. P. |journal=The Geographical Journal |year=1937 |issue=4 |doi=10.2307/1787694 |bibcode=1937GeogJ..90..349B }}</ref> However, earlier usage of the term is possible as a borrowing of the [[Old French language|Old French]] word ''blanket'' for the type of fabric, attested as early as 1278 and deriving from the adjective ''[[wikt:blanc#French|blanc]]'', meaning "white".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/blanchet |work=[[Trésor de la langue française]] |title=blanchet |publisher=[[CNRTL]]}}</ref> [[William Shakespeare]] is recognised as the first person to use the verb ''blanket'', meaning to 'cover with or as with a blanket'. In the play ''[[King Lear]]'', published in 1608, the character Edgar says: "My face ile grime with filth, Blanket my loynes, else all my haire with knots."<ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-12-25|title=Almost 300 years without a duvet|language=en-GB|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34848546|access-date=2021-01-28}}</ref>
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