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English
Noun
beauty-sleep (uncountable)
- Alternative form of beauty sleep
1857, Charles Kingsley, “The Cruise of the Waterwitch”, in Two Years Ago, volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 148:A medical man, who may be called up at any moment, must make sure of his ‘beauty-sleep.’
1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. , volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, , →OCLC, pages 187–188:And would I please to remember that I had roused him up at night, and the quality always made a point of paying four times over for a man's loss of his beauty-sleep. I replied that his loss of beauty-sleep was rather improving to a man of so high complexion; and that I, being none of that quality, must pay half-quality prices; […]