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Nightcap

noun
1.
An alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic.
2.
A cloth cap worn in bed.
3.
The final game of a double header.






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"Nightcap" Quotes from Famous Books



... as if her twenty-six years had added another ten to themselves since morning. She patted the soft cheek on the pillow, and tenderly adjusted the gossamer nightcap which, after the fashion of its wearer's youth, kept the white locks snugly in order during ...
— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond

... their eyes and shivering with fear, and Monsieur Ragoul was dancing about, with his red nightcap ...
— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon

... which he could not answer for—that the house was rebuilt on a scale unusually large to give him a suite of secret apartments, and that he often walks about the woods and crags of Minto at night, with a white nightcap, and long white beard. The circumstance of his having died on the road down to Scotland is the sole foundation of this absurd legend, which shows how willing the vulgar are to gull themselves when they can ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... nightcap had caught up a bundle from among the feet of the horses, and had laid it on the basement of the fountain, and was down in the mud and wet, howling over it like ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

... this, be without a fool? Certes, the good Lord St. Clere and his fair lady sister might think our housekeeping as niggardly as that of their churlish kinsman at Gay Bowers, who sent his father's jester to the hospital, sold the poor sot's bells for hawk-jesses, and made a nightcap of his long-eared bonnet. And, sirrah, let me see thee fool handsomely,—speak squibs and crackers, instead of that dry, barren, musty gibing which thou hast used of late; or, by the bones! the porter shall have thee to his lodge, and cob thee with thine ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott


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