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Recent Examples of nightcap
Naturally, Betty Jo invites Lee back to hers for a nightcap.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
Avs assistant Nolan Pratt will lead the coaching staff in the nightcap downtown, along with Eagles head coach Mark Letestu and his other assistant, Tim Army.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
The easiest place to enjoy a nightcap is the lobby bar of your hotel.
—David Dickstein, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
After dinner, many guests migrate to the aft and sun decks for a nightcap under the stars.
—Rachel Ingram, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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The restaurant also serves a handful of low-ABV cocktails ($14-$17) like the bon vivant, made with shochu, dry vermouth, oleo saccharum, Pescadero sea salt and bay laurel oil; or the low tide, featuring an aloe aperitif, cucumber-parsley cordial and tonic.—
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Locals and visitors alike still flock to its quayside terrace for an aperitif served with a side of people watching, just like Jean Cocteau, who lived in room 22, and his friends once did.—
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Such a breeze up there to whip around your nightgown.—
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Pick up a cozy essentials set with a beanie, scarf, gloves, and ear warmers for $20, or sleep easy in a luxe satin nightgown that’s gentle on skin ($13).—
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Mitchell was the most quietly elegant of men, dressed in a costume—a homburg, a knitted vest, a tweed jacket—that seemed unchanged since the thirties, and speaking in a soft but confident North Carolina accent.—
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Optimo stocks a variety of styles, including homburgs, porkpies, straw Panamas, and fedoras, the last of which is seen here.—
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This eatery, which features oceanic views and floor-to-ceiling windows, also has a wine bar with an ample wine list, cocktail selection and other tipples.—
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Each festive season, after the late nights, parties and tipples—not to mention the expense of going to bars— many people give up alcohol entirely for the month of January.—
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My great-grandmother in Georgia always wore a full-length dressing gown, while one of my Ohio grandmothers liked silky two-piece sets, and the other preferred flannel nightshirts with a rounded yoke that looked like something out of Little House on the Prairie.—
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Petite Plume also sells silk pajama sets and nightshirts in whimsical prints, to make for a memorable gift.—
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McCall’s banner also appears to cleverly usurp and subvert the aesthetics of European heraldry—indeed, its elegant design would look utterly correct on a beret, a medal, or a heater shield.—
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Sartorially, Parisians are way beyond the cliché of a beret and a striped top, sipping café au lait at a sidewalk bistro.—
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Last year, multiple locations were seized by the Kansas Department of Revenue for thousands of dollars in unpaid sales and liquor taxes.—
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Aldermen legalized video gambling machines in neighborhood establishments, restructured liquor taxes to bring in more revenue, cleared the way for advertising on downtown bridges and more.—
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Take Prada’s Spring-Summer 2023 show, where sheer, matronly nightdresses and housecoats were shown with heeled Mary Janes and tightly gripped clutch bags.—
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The pair appear in a series of flamboyant poses: noodling on a piano; smoking solemnly in front of art works; curtsying mid-phone call in a risqué nightdress.—
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“Nightcap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightcap. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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