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beauty sleep

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Noun

  1. 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.
  2. Extra sleep; also (generally), any sleep; (countable) an instance of this; an extra nap.
  3. Alternative form of beauty sleep.

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