Blanket (disambiguation)
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A blanket is bedding material, generally a large piece of rectangular cloth.
Variants of this material include:
- 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
- Space blanket
Blanket may also refer to:
People or places:
- Blanket, the nickname given to one of Michael Jackson's children (see Michael Jackson marriages and children)
- Blanketeers, nickname given to the operatives involved in a public protest in 1817 England (compare with Blanket protest)
- Blanket, Texas, an American town
- the Blanket meteorite of 1909, which fell in Texas, United States (see Meteorite falls)
- Blanket Independent School District
Other:
- 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
- Smallpox blanket
- Blanket bog, an Irish bog
- Blanket loan
- Markov blanket
- Blanket order
- Hoover blanket
- Blanket fort
- Ejecta blanket
- Blanket octopus, a breed 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, a graphic novel by Craig Thompson
- Blankets, an accompaniment album to Thompson's novel by American indie rock act Tracker
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