nighttame
/ˈnaɪtˌteɪm/adjectiveVerified NewAlso in: nachtzahm (Deutsch) · nochedomada (Español) · nuitdomestiquée (Français)
(Of a night) domesticated by routine — the night that has been broken to the schedule, and no longer runs wild.
The nighttame household has the same bedtime, the same lights-out, the same quietcurfew; the night comes when called and leaves when the alarm says. The tameness is a comfort and a small loss — the wild night, the one that ran until three, is remembered the way a wolf is remembered by a dog.
Etym. — night + tame — the domestication metaphor for the routinized night; tame is exactly the state of a wild thing broken to the schedule.
Rel. — quietcurfew
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