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As posted further down, here's my understanding:
A duvet is hard to wash, but a blanket is about the same as a duvet cover, it's just thicker and thus takes up more space in the washing machine. My washing machine does a good job of spinning out the water, so it doesn't take forever to dry.
Aussie English is almost the same, just replace duvet with doona
I live in a cold bit of Australia and we use doonas with doona covers and an optional top sheet
We nearly never wash the doona, just the cover and the sheets
A duvet by definition is down. Duvet is the French word for down. Though I'm sure most people don't realize this and use duvet to refer to just about anything blanketlike.
it's only a duvet if it comes from the Duvet region of France, otherwise it's just a sparkling blanket
Oh I wanted to make that joke :(
No, people use "duvet" specifically to refer to the blanket-like things that go inside duvet covers. Sometimes those are filled with down, but many types of filling are used these days. Back when the word "duvet" originated, down was probably the only filling used, but now that we have alternatives, it makes sense that the word "duvet" is still used to refer to non-down alternatively-filled blanket-like things, because language evolves.