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Alternative forms

• beauty-sleep

Noun

beauty sleep ‎(uncountable)

1. (idiomatic) Sleep before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to health and beauty.^[1]
   • 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, sometimes humorous) Extra sleep or a special nap.
   • 1906, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor, ch. 12:

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

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1. ↑ John Stephen Farmer and William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1890), p. 159.