blanketeer
n.— «She and a group of other volunteers, or “blanketeers” as they like to call themselves, provide handmade blankets to sick and traumatized children in Central Kentucky. The women are members of Lexington’s chapter of Project Linus, a national organization based in Bloomington, Ill., that takes its name from the Peanuts character who takes his blue security blanket wherever he goes.» —“Soothing kids, one blanket at a time” by Robin Roenker Lexington Herald-Leader (Ky.) July 27, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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