"night-cap" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: night-caps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} night-cap (plural night-caps)
  1. Alternative form of nightcap. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: nightcap
    Sense id: en-night-cap-en-noun-nk8aMJrW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, signature K, verso:",
          "text": "You skie-ſtaring Cocks combes you: you fat braines, out upon you; you are good for nothing but to ſweat night-caps, and make rug-gownes deare: […]",
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          "text": "1769, Samuel Johnson, cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume 1, p. 311,\nYou remember the gentleman in “The Spectator,” who had a commission of lunacy taken out against him for his extreme singularity, such as never wearing a wig, but a night-cap. Now, Sir, abstractedly, the night-cap was best; but, relatively, the advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run after him."
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          "ref": "1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Comet of 1825, page 151:",
          "text": "—Miss Luna, muffling up her head,\nWent with the ague, straight to bed,\nPut out her lamp, and bade them tell\nShe could not hear her mistress' bell,\nBegg'd them with motherwort to dose her,\nAnd drew her cloudy night-cap closer.—",
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          "text": "Rum Fustian is a \"night-cap\" made precisely in the same way as the preceding [egg-posset or egg-flip], with the yolks of twelve eggs, a quart of strong home-brewed beer, a bottle of white wine, half-a-pint of gin, a grated nutmeg, the juice from the peel of a lemon, a small quantity of cinnamon, and sugar sufficient to sweeten it.",
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          "ref": "1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “The Genteel Style in Writing”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 111:",
          "text": "The glitter of gold, or of diamonds, will but hurt sore eyes instead of curing them; and an aching head will be no more eased by wearing a crown, than a common night-cap.",
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          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 22–23:",
          "text": "Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his night-cap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel.",
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          "ref": "1849, Water-cure Journal:",
          "text": "if the hearing is affected, Isopathy makes you a night-cap trimmed with the ears of a calf!",
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          "ref": "c. 1862, “Total Abstinence for ministers”, in Journal of the American Temperance Union:",
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