night meal en · NOUN
Etymology
From night + meal.
Meanings
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A meal eaten at night; a late supper.
Hippolyte appreciates Delphine's erotic tutelage […] but feels anxious and dyspeptic, as if she has eaten too rich a night meal.
1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| night meals | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| nightmeal | alternative | lexicographic | |
| night-meal | alternative | lexicographic |