morning sleep

morning sleep
The second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern.

Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. The succeeding interval of slumber was called “second” or “morning” sleep.

Syn: second sleep

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