electric blanket

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   a blanket containing and electric heating element that can be controlled to the desired temperature by a rheostat

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Questions about electric blanket

What does electric blanket mean?

electric blanket means "a blanket containing and electric heating element that can be controlled to the desired temperature by a rheostat".

Is electric blanket a common word?

electric blanket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.