beauty sleep

See also: beauty-sleep

English

Alternative forms

• beauty-sleep

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Noun

beauty sleep (usually uncountable, plural beauty sleeps)

1. (idiomatic, uncountable) Sleep before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to health and beauty.
   • c. 1900, Ralph Connor, The Man From Glengarry, ch. 23:

     But eager as Kate was for her beauty sleep, the light burned late in her room.

2. (idiomatic, countable, sometimes humorous) Extra sleep or a special nap.
   • 1906, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 12, in The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor:

     "I know I ought to be taking a beauty sleep," she thought, "so I'll be all fresh and fine for the evening."

Translations

Extra sleep or a special nap

• Finnish: kauneusunet pl
• French: sommeil réparateur m ("refreshing sleep"), roupillon (fr)

• German: Schönheitsschlaf m
• Swedish: skönhetssömn (sv) c