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postprandial

adjective

After a meal, especially after dinner

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The Mayfair townhouse also offers members "a quiet spot to enjoy a postprandial cigar".

Thinking of their postprandial chores, one of the two leaned in to say, "We'll never let our dog go pee on their planters".

Many elements join to make the beautifully crafted "Curious Case of Benjamin Button," with a running time of two hours and forty-seven minuthe, the best picture in years for a postprandial rest (popcorn division).

Nothing is predictable at this social occasion, which ends when the black visitor, Jefferson Carter, batters his way out of a screened tent where the postprandial discussion, despite the liberal dispositions of the white participants, has irritated him into a rage.

One spring day a few years ago, during a postprandial stroll along a canal towpath in southern New Jersey, she exclaimed to a group of friends, "Everyone, come look at this beautiful dung-colored toad!" That was Alice, never not singular.

People will vote when the mood strikes them — before breakfast, on the way to work, just before lunch, just after lunch, while taking a postprandial stroll, after the theatre, or in the middle of a sleepless night….

A plate of the fashion petits fours accompanied Mrs. Barsky's postprandial iced cappuccino.

At Kajitsu, the traditional matcha tea, bright-green and hand-frothed, arrives as an epilogue to the meal, which, unless you're a vegan or a Japanophile, is not guaranteed to ward off cravings for postprandial ice cream.

In the middle of the day, Utsav bustles with devotees of its inexpensive lunch buffet, a changing gauntlet of standards — palak corn, vindaloo, carrot pudding — that leaves postprandial office workers dazed in the Sixth Avenue glare.

Jeffrey Steingarten, the food critic for Vogue, made a pilgrimage (the Chutimas said that his postprandial cigar was disrupted by the stench of cows), and so did Mark Bittman, of the New York Times.

It's about immediate access to a couch for a postprandial nap, then waking up to pick with your fingers at the choicest bits of meat left on the tinfoiled turkey carcass, then making sandwiches, or soup, or pot pie the next day.

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