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siesta

Romans counted the hours from dawn, so the sexta hora, the sixth hour, was noon; Spanish siesta became the midday rest, and travellers took the word and the habit home to France, Germany and beyond. Church Latin kept the sixth hour as the prayer office of sext.

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