comforter

noun4

1. •
   A person who comforts someone who is suffering.

   • Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. — 1598
2. •
   (US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.

   • A vast quilt or comforter was heaped beside the bed, in a broad puddle of congealed blood, thick and shiny on the patterned rugs. — 1984
3. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) A pacifier.
4. •
   (UK, old-fashioned) A woollen scarf for winter.

   • […] round his neck he wore a flaming red worsted comforter, whereof the straggling ends peeped out beneath his threadbare Newmarket coat, which was very tight and buttoned all the way up. — 1838