beauty sleeps

A form of beauty sleep — Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of beauty sleep
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