Postprandial

Word of the Day for Saturday March 19, 2005

postprandial \post-PRAN-dee-uhl\, adjective:
Happening or done after a meal.

A gourmand who zealously avoids all exercise as "seriously damaging to one's health," he had caviar for breakfast and was now having oysters for lunch, whetted with wine, as he fueled himself for a postprandial reading at the Montauk Club in Brooklyn.
--Mel Gussow, "The Man Who Put Horace Rumpole on the Case," New York Times, April 12, 1995

[W]hen I wake up in the morning, I can have my usual breakfast -- a slightly bizarre concoction of three kinds of cold cereal topped with grapes and a cup of decaf -- and then stagger back to bed for a postprandial snooze.
--Sylvan Fox, "It's Less Hectic Staying Put In One Place," Newsday, April 3, 1994


Postprandial is from post- + prandial, from Latin prandium, "a late breakfast or lunch."
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after dinner drink


after dinner activities- sleep, tv, strolling, and dishes!