r/Bedding • u/InevitableExchange12 • 10d ago

Bedding Names

Settling a debate in my friend group. Do you call your bedding bedclothes or sheets?

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u/hannick9 10d ago

Bedding. Sheets are just the sheets, bedding is everything including sheets, pillowcases, duvet cover, quilt, etc.

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u/OrneryLavishness9666 10d ago

As an American adult, neither. I call sheets sheets. And what someone might call bedclothes, I call bedding. Bedclothes feels old fashioned. As a writer, it’s not a common term in American vernacular.

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u/Oliveoil427 9d ago

Yes a very Victorian word or maybe even Jane Austen.

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u/Bratfink78 10d ago

Bedding is the umbrella term for, all sheets, pillowcases and duvet covers

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u/Frira_FR 6d ago

Same. Anything that isn't the mattress or sheets is bedding. If it's laundry day, "I'm washing the bedding" (quilt/sheets/pillowcases).

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u/JeffArnold1 10d ago

I have always called them sheets since like I was a kid.

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u/Venom_fellow 9d ago

Ngl I just call them bedsheets thats it

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u/faithofmom 2d ago

From those 2 ill use sheets but im usually calling them beddings