Its wooliness is gone and it would be an exaggeration, even a presumption, to describe this scrawny half-eroded object as a blanket. A “blan,” possibly; even a “ket,” but a full-blown “blanket,” no.

Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat (1905) — I Am a Cat

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