early 17th cent.: alteration of counterpoint, from Old French contrepointe, based on medieval Latin culcitra punctaquilted mattress (puncta, literally meaning pricked, from the verb pungere). The change in the ending was due to association with pane in an obsolete sense cloth
out of these deep surrounding shades and glared white , the piled-up mattresses and pillows of the bed , spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane .床上高高地疊著褥墊和枕頭,上面鋪著雪白的馬賽布床罩,在周圍深色調陳設的映襯下,白得眩目。
+white counterpane
1 . 白床單
he remembered the room where they lived , a dark , close-smelling room that seemed half filled by a bed with a white counterpane .他記得他們住的那間屋子,黑暗湫隘,一張白床單鋪蓋的床占了一半的面積。