A tremendous amount can be done with colourful curtains, flowers and counterpanes.
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The counterpanes were sometimes very costly, generally purple embroidered with figures in gold; and rich hangings fell to the ground masking the front.
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He might even ask his hostess for a whitecounterpane.
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