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  • noun Plural form of nightcap.

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Examples

  • Where we'll have our nightcaps is suddenly up in the air. but it's my year, dammit!

    Archive 2004-01-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Where we'll have our nightcaps is suddenly up in the air. but it's my year, dammit!

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • The priestes are married as other men are, and weare all their garments as other men doe, except their nightcaps, which is cloth of some sad colour, being round, and reacheth vnto the eares: their crownes are shauen, but the rest of their haire they let grow as long as nature will permit, so that it hangeth beneath their eares vpon their shoulders: their beards they neuer shaue: if his wife happen to die, it is not lawfull for him to mary againe during his life.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The priestes are married as other men are, and weare all their garments as other men doe, except their nightcaps, which is cloth of some sad colour, being round, and reacheth vnto the eares: their crownes are shauen, but the rest of their haire they let grow as long as nature will permit, so that it hangeth beneath their eares vpon their shoulders: their beards they neuer shaue: if his wife happen to die, it is not lawfull for him to mary againe during his life.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • I called it this funny name, because poor little lame Charley to whom all the stories were told, called them his "nightcaps," as he and his sisters and brothers had to go to bed, the moment a story was finished for the evening.

    Baby Nightcaps Aunt Fanny 1858

  • Willett and Phillis Cunnington (they were related; I don't know how), it follows the evolution from the 15th Century (of undershirts, breeches, nightcaps, corsets, etc) to the 20th.

    Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011

  • Willett and Phillis Cunnington (they were related; I don't know how), it follows the evolution from the 15th Century (of undershirts, breeches, nightcaps, corsets, etc) to the 20th.

    Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011

  • Pass on caffeinated drinks, chocolate, and tobacco at night, and no large meals or nightcaps..

    Sleep awareness week: A wake-up call for a groggy nation 2011

  • Willett and Phillis Cunnington (they were related; I don't know how), it follows the evolution from the 15th Century (of undershirts, breeches, nightcaps, corsets, etc) to the 20th.

    Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011

  • Willett and Phillis Cunnington (they were related; I don't know how), it follows the evolution from the 15th Century (of undershirts, breeches, nightcaps, corsets, etc) to the 20th.

    Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011

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