nightcloth

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cloth placed over a birdcage, used to simulate the darkness of night and settle the bird(s) into sleep.
    — When the O’Haras were ten paces away, the bird suddenly swooped off the miner’s shoulder—the miner took no notice—and flew to a table on top of which reposed an elegant metal cage with a frilly nightcloth rolled up at the top. […] The fat woman rolled the nightcloth down over the cage and its nearly raped cockatoo and stalked off with it in high outrage.
  2. A nightgown. rare
    — (1895.) July 1, 1677.—Lady Mary Fletcher to her niece, Katherine Fleming. Pray tell your father that I omitted two suits of ribbon, a laced apron, and laced nightcloth, and a fan, all of which are necessaries as well as the smocks of which I said nothing.

词形变化

nightcloths plural

词汇关系

相关词
nightclothes

词源

From night + cloth.
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