beauty sleep

== English == === Etymology === From beauty (noun) +‎ sleep (noun). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbjuːti ˌsliːp/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbjuti ˌslip/ Hyphenation: beau‧ty sleep === Noun === beauty sleep (countable and uncountable, plural beauty sleeps) (idiomatic) (uncountable) 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. [from early 19th c.] (uncountable, chiefly humorous) Extra sleep; also (generally), any sleep; (countable) an instance of this; an extra nap. Synonym: beauty rest ==== Alternative forms ==== beauty-sleep ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Sleeping Beauty === References === === Further reading === sleep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia John S[tephen] Farmer, compiler (1890), “Beauty-Sleep, subs.”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume I, [London: […] Thomas Poulter and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 159, column 1.