What Is a Duvet?
5. Different Names
Even among other English-speaking languages, you will find that a duvet has different names. In Australian English, for example, a duvet is commonly called a doona. Doona is a brand name for a popular duvet product, and duvets used to be known as continental quilts.
The latter name referring to the duvet’s origins in continental Europe and its similarities to quilts. In British English, it is often called a duvet but also sometimes a continental quilt (or quilt for short). In American English, a duvet is sometimes called a comforter but, as we will explain later, the two are very different things.
