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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Time spent at the table after eating; the habit of relaxing at the table after a heavy meal..
A lackadaisical attitude to time explains the sobremesa—the time after lunch when everyone has finished eating but no-one wants to get up and leave. Sitting around the table chatting and drinking coffee or brandy or patxarán^([sic]) (a sloe liqueur from the Basque country) is the solution.
The figure presiding continues in this function during the sobremesa, that is, the time spent lingering and chatting after the meal. It's perhaps significant that in English there is no specific word for sobremesa.
And then I’d realize I was still missing everything about what once made me love food: the people who create it and the “sobremesa” — the limitless chat after desserts, the reluctance to leave the table, the delight in shared experience.
Use sobremesa when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sobremesa means Time spent at the table after eating; the habit of relaxing at the table after a heavy meal..
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A lackadaisical attitude to time explains the sobremesa—the time after lunch when everyone has finished eating but no-one wants to get up and leave. Sitting around the table chatting and drinking coffee or brandy or patxarán^([sic]) (a sloe liqueur from the Basque country) is the solution.
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