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Why Did Duvets Replace Bedspreads?

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Why Did Duvets Replace Bedspreads?
Four little girls praying by a bed at a foundling hospital, circa 1920. Paul Thompson/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Back to the subject of laundry and bedding, you have surely noticed that something has changed over the decades at hotels. Whereas they used to have bedspreads, they nearly all now have what are called duvets, pronounced doo-VAY.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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