duvet

duvet is masculine in French.

down (soft, fine feathers); down, fuzz (on face, peach, etc); sleeping bag; duvet, continental quilt; eiderdown

Inherited from Middle French duvet, from Old French duvet (“down, the feathers of young birds”), alteration of dumet, dumect, from Old French dum, dun (“down, feathers”), from Old Norse dúnn (“down, down feather”), from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, fume, raise dust”). Cognate with Danish dun (“down”), German Daune (“down”). More at English down.