Nightcloth
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nightcloth is a noun meaning A cloth placed over a birdcage, used to simulate the darkness of night and settle the bird(s) into sleep.
Meaning
A cloth placed over a birdcage, used to simulate the darkness of night and settle the bird(s) into sleep.
More Meanings
- (rare) A nightgown.
Example Sentences
Though it is midday the apartment is dark, the nightcloth is on the birdcage still.
Quiet settled over the manager’s office like the night[-]cloth over Sister Angela’s canary cage, leaving each one to brood on his or her own thoughts.
The public was particularly unappreciative of the 1808-1814 Classic Head type which presented “a sleepy-looking Liberty turbaned with a diaphanous nightcloth,” and promptly dubbed her the “Blowsy Barmaid.”
(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.
Word Forms
- nightcloths
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dressed, naked, unclothed.
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