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English

Noun

Singular morning sleep

Plural usually uncountable; plural morning sleeps

morning sleep (usually uncountable; plural morning sleeps)

  1. (Can we verify() this sense?) The second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern.
    • 2001, A. Roger Ekirch, Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles, The American Historical Review, Volume 106, Number 2 (April 2001), American Historical Association, pages 364–365:
      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.

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