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plural siestas
A nap, especially an afternoon one taken after lunch in some cultures. quotations examples
One humid afternoon a visitor did arrive to disturb Rottcodd as he lay deeply hammocked, for his siesta was broken sharply by a rattling of the door handle […]
1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode
third-person singular simple present siestas, present participle siestaing, simple past and past participle siestaed
(intransitive) to take a siesta; to nap. examples