(n.) A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
(n.) A potion of spirit drank at bedtime.
Example Sentences:
(1) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
(2) Cross the road and pick up some jam and biscuits in Le Comestible grocery and then waddle up to Kuzina fish restaurant for some oysters before settling down for a nightcap in Bar-Cave de la Monnaie on the next corner.
(3) It's the perfect night-time soother and banishes all the worries of the day in a gentle nightcap.
(4) Visitors over the years include Sir Walter Scott and Dr Johnson, who, according to his travelling companion James Boswell, "most strangely slept without a nightcap."
(5) In one interview to promote the book, the entrepreneur related how Michelle Obama had invited her back to the White House for a nightcap after the 2010 State of the Union address.
(6) Although a 'nightcap' was considered to improve relaxation on falling sleep, men ranked alcohol as the fourth disturbing factor.
(7) He took me to dinner, suggested a “quick nightcap” at our neighbourhood bar, and then, surprise!
Settler
Definition:
(n.) One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
(n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
(n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
(n.) A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Netanyahu declared he would not “uproot a single settler” from the Jordan Valley.
(2) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(3) The Civil Administration, the Israeli governing body in the West Bank, said the settlers had failed to obtain the required permit to purchase property in the occupied territory, and were therefore ordered to evacuate the house.
(4) The bill would legalise nearly 4,000 settler homes built on private Palestinian land, according to settlement watchdog Peace Now.
(5) Settler youths are rarely held in detention before trial and have access to superior legal representation.
(6) Only the Abu Aishes and another family remain on his street, alongside new settler apartment blocks and portable buildings.
(7) Since the mid-90s, settlers have established dozens of outposts to prevent the transfer of land to the Palestinians.
(8) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(9) Humanitarian settlers also benefit the wider community through developing and maintaining economic linkages with their origin countries.
(10) The ascendancy from the 70s onwards of the religious settler movement in Israel , and the rise of Hamas and other overtly Islamist Palestinian movements in the late 80s, were clear signs not only of the weakening of secular forces in both societies, but that the language of the conflict was returning to its roots.
(11) Another historian, David Anderson , professor of African politics at Oxford, said the files showed that one European settler, Jack Hopcraft, painstakingly documented the abuses perpetrated against his employees and that colonial officials chose to ignore him.
(12) For more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in more than 200 locations in the West Bank, the Israeli military is obliged to intervene if there is retaliatory Palestinian violence.
(13) Settlers accepted the deal at a vote in Amona’s synagogue on Sunday.
(14) Assam, a tea-growing Indian state that borders Bhutan and Bangladesh, has a long history of often violent land disputes between the indigenous Bodo tribes, Muslim settlers and the Adivasi community.
(15) The Israeli authorities are accused of structuring their security operations to minimise the cost to the settlers of the campaign of harassment, intimidation and violence.
(16) The defence minister, Ehud Barak, should resign, says David Ha'ivri of the Shomron Liaison Office, a regional settlers' body.
(17) In a boost to the settlers, Netanyahu demanded the eviction be delayed to allow an investigation, for which no timeframe was given.
(18) Cooke reflects that: "When Gove talks about school discipline, he is talking to Settlers.
(19) Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, has had little to show his people: with more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and the continued expansion of settlements, there are growing doubts over the viability of a two-state solution.
(20) Referring to the rise in tensions, Barghouti writes: “The escalation did not start with the killing of two Israeli settlers,” referring to the shooting of a husband and wife in front of their children.