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Nightcap

noun

An alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic.

A cloth cap worn in bed.

The final game of a double header.

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... and was undoing her hair and brushing it out. It was very curly and all fluffed out in a shining white fuzz around her fat, pink face, full of soft wrinkles; but in a moment she was braiding it up again and putting on a tight white nightcap, which she ...

— Understood Betsy • Dorothy Canfield

... the ladies, very kind," Carew was observing, with a perfectly grave face, as he drew out a handkerchief of spotty red cotton and a khaki-colored nightcap. "Look, Weldon! These fit my complexion to a charm, and will be wonderfully warm and comfortable. What is ...

— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller

... last the Baronne rushed into my room to discover what the noise was. She looks perfectly odd when going to bed; a good deal seemed to have come off; she is as thin as a lath; and on the dressing table was such a sweet lace nightcap, with lovely baby curls sewed to its edge, and when she put that on she did look sweet. It isn't that she has no hair herself, it's thick and brown; but she explained that having to wear a nightcap ...

— The Visits of Elizabeth • Elinor Glyn

... and met the keen eyes of his sister bent on him from the bed. Her head was surmounted by a remarkable nightcap, ...

— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood

... the sloop, and some laborers engaged to unload it. From the load itself came the earthly smell. The bandage about the jaws was a silk handkerchief in which I had bound up my head, in default of my customary nightcap. ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

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