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 Prince Michael II, 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
• Blanket protest - Northern Irish prison protest held in the Maze prison by republican prisoners.

[edit] See also

• Blankets