Sentence:  It was amazing how they had herded together for protection : an enormous matriarch in a <WSD>quilted</WSD> silk wrapper , rising from the breakfast table ; a gross boy in his teens , shuffling in from the kitchen with a sandwich in his hands ; a girl in her twenties , fat and sullen , descending the marble staircase ; then all four gathering on the sofa to face the inquisitor . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  made of layers of fabric held together by patterned stitching