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a beautiful counterpane that was a family heirloom
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Beneath wall text describing Báthory’s ghoulish crimes and her macabre punishment, bloody mannequins in nightshirts, one with its throat hideously cut, sprawl across a counterpane.
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Sam Lipsyte,
Harper’s Magazine ,
27 Apr. 2022
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Sam Lipsyte,
Harper’s Magazine ,
27 Apr. 2022
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“Counterpane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/counterpane. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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counterpane
noun
coun·ter·pane
ˈkau̇nt-ər-ˌpān 
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