night meal

English

Alternative forms

  • night-meal, nightmeal

Etymology

From night + meal.

Noun

night meal (plural night meals)

  1. A meal eaten at night; a late supper.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Hippolyte appreciates Delphine's erotic tutelage […] but feels anxious and dyspeptic, as if she has eaten too rich a night meal.

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