Word Finder - nightcap

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A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread.

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Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.

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A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic.

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I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.

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(by extension) Something the person reads or listens to before bed.

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The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader.

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A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.

He had a nightcap on his head and his feet were bare.

Maybe I could rally for a little nightcap after all.

Mary Hendrikhovna, a plump little blonde German, in a dressing jacket and nightcap, was sitting on a broad bench in the front corner.

We had such a fun time at Elisabeth's and when we got home we had a nightcap and went up to bed and, well, you know...When we were done, we talked for a while and then he asked me.

The last thing I remember was having a nightcap in the hotel bar.

Consider wearing bed socks and a nightcap, as well as thermal underwear and a warm nightdress or pjamas.

The plan was to find somewhere to get a nightcap.

Atzerodt shuffled along in carpet slippers, a long white nightcap on his head.

Soothing nightcap Bring creamy milk to a boil with two split cardamom pods.

They also suggest a bloody sharp instrument and a wolf's head in the basket - preferably wearing Grandma's nightcap.

She will probably wear an apron and a nightcap.

Movies from or set in the 1950s and 1960s often show women in baby dolls - usually with their hair wound up in curls and covered by a beribboned nightcap.

She sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third time, muttering to herself.

The first person Rostov met in the officers' ward was a thin little man with one arm, who was walking about the first room in a nightcap and hospital dressing gown, with a pipe between his teeth.

The door opened and the old prince, in a dressing gown and a white nightcap, came in.

As they left the tavern in the twilight of the dawn, Rostov and Ilyin both glanced under the wet and glistening leather hood of the doctor's cart, from under the apron of which his feet were sticking out, and in the middle of which his wife's nightcap was visible and her sleepy breathing audible.

And in fact the head in the nightcap was lifted at once.

Then he took off his nightcap, combed his hair over his temples, and donned his cap.