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blanket
c.1300, from O.Fr.
blanchet
dim. of
blanc
"white" (see
blank
). The verb is first recorded 1605.
Wet blanket
(1830) is from the notion of a person who throws a damper on social situations like a wet blanket smothers a fire.
