English: occupational name for a maker of quilts and mattresses,
and also of the quilted garments worn in battle by those who could not
afford armor made of metal, from an agent derivative of Middle
English, cuilte, coilte ‘quilt’, ‘mattress’ (from Old
French, from Latin culcita ‘mattress’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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