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night watch

–noun
1. a watch or guard kept during the night.
2. a person or the persons keeping such a watch.
3. Usually, night watches. the periods or divisions into which the night was divided in ancient times.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE


night watching, noun

Night Watch, The

–noun
a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
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