What is the origin of 'sleep tight'?
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(The name given to) a roundel or roundels when of a green colour. In early use usually treated as plural.
Mid 16th century; earliest use found in Gerard Legh (d. 1563), heraldic writer. Probably an alteration of pome, perhaps originally due to the reanalysis of an irregular plural form.