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A blanket is a large, usually rectangular piece of thick bedding material
[edit] Types of blanket
- Afghan blanket, colored wool knitted or crocheted in geometric shapes
- Blanket capote, blanket used as a coat, as by frontiersmen and mountaineers
- Blanket sleeper, a one-piece, footed sleeping garment
- Electric blanket, bedding material with heating powered by electricity
- Fire blanket, safety device used in extinguishing fires
- Hudson's Bay point blanket, brand name of blanket in North America during the 18th and 19th centuries
- Saddle blanket, protective covering for beasts of burden (see also Horse blanket)
- Security blanket, a small child's valued piece of cloth
- Space blanket, a lightweight reflective material used to keep casualties warm
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- Blanket primary, voting system employed in the United States
- Blanket flower, a short-lived annual plant in the United States (see also Indian blanket)
- Blanket stitch, a stitch typically used to edge blankets
- Smallpox blanket
- Blanket bog, bog lying over much of the countryside, formed in cool and very wet climates
- Blanket loan
- Markov blanket
- Blanket order
- Hoover blanket
- Blanket fort
- Ejecta blanket
- Blanket octopus, a species of octopus found in Northern Australia
- Pigs in a blanket, a cuisine in the United Kingdom and United States
- Blanketing, interference caused by strong radio signals
- Blankets (graphic novel), a graphic novel by Craig Thompson
- Blankets (album), an accompaniment album to Thompson's novel by American indie rock band Tracker
- Blanket protest, Northern Irish prison protest held in the Maze prison by republican prisoners
- Blanketeers, nickname given to the operatives involved in a public protest in 1817 England
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