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siesta

[ see-es-tuh ]

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noun

a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America:
He is trying to relax, but the road construction noise seems likely to ruin his siesta.

to take a midday or afternoon rest or nap:
It got so hot that even the cicadas started singing earlier and siestaed during the heat of the day.

siesta

/ sɪˈɛstə /

Origin of siesta¹

First recorded in 1645–55; from Spanish, from Latin sexta ( hōra ) “the sixth (hour), midday”

Origin of siesta¹

C17: from Spanish, from Latin sexta hōra the sixth hour, that is, noon

How can anyone go home for a three-course meal and a siesta in the midst of peak trading?

Now Egypt is again leading the way to the future after a long siesta under Hosni Mubarak.

When we reached the hotel everybody went in to take a siesta—that "Mittags-Schlaf" which is law in Germany.

They dined, therefore, in silence, and afterwards he laid himself down as usual on the sofa for a siesta.

The session lasted until time for the noonday luncheon and siesta , and was resumed in the afternoon.

We happened to reach it when the prisoners were having a siesta.

Is there no sombra where we can eat our lunch and take a siesta?

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