nocturnal
/nɑkˈtɝ.nəl/ noun C2- A person or creature that is active at night.
- A device for telling the time at night, rather like a sundial but read according to the stars.
Plural nocturnals
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In this way my second link was formed, which told me that the nocturnal visitors were two in number, one remarkable for his height (as I calculated from the length of his stride), and the other fashionably dressed, to judge from the small and elegant impression left by his boots.
What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed?
“What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the very peculiar words of the dying woman?”
That night he went out as usual for his nocturnal walk, in the course of which he was in the habit of smoking a cigar.
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