nightcap
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ˈnaɪtˌkæp/
nightcap (plural nightcaps)
- A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread. [From 14th c.]
- Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.
- A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic. [From 1818.]
- I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.
- (by extension, figuratively) Something the person reads or listens to before bed.
- 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist ↗
- " […] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […] "
- 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist ↗
- (US, sport, baseball) The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader. [From 1939.]
- (historical) A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.
- French: bonnet de nuit
- German: Schlafmütze
- Italian: berretto da notte, papalina
- Portuguese: touca de dormir, barrete de dormir, gorro de dormir
- Russian: ночно́й колпа́к
- Spanish: gorro de dormir
- German: Absacker (colloquial), Schlummertrunk
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