#midday rest

• Take a midday break — To eat lunch or to rest during the noon hours, after finishing the first agricultural chores of the day; to spend the period of maximum solar intensity in the shade. This popular term belongs to the traditional rural vocabulary and structurally describes a ritualistic biological and social custom specific to pastoral communities in the Carpathian region.
• Midday sheltering — A rare dialectal variant denoting the act of taking a intense midday rest and its result; the rural process or ritual of spending the middle of the day in the shade, sheltered from the sun's scorching heat. This abstract popular term structurally defines the period of prolonged rest and collective siesta specific to archaic communities in mountain and hill regions during summer.