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Some cultures, of course, do embrace the afternoon nap, or siesta.

During the week, most meals are taken at home, including midday lunch, when many businesses shut down, and might be followed by a siesta.

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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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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