siesta

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He created the YouTube channel Siesta Dog TV which features videos of dogs, for dogs, in colours they can see best.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Instead, Milton veered south, making landfall near Siesta Key and thus sparing Tampa from the worst-case scenarios that many had predicted.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

Hurricane Milton made landfall on Wednesday near Siesta Key, off the west coast of Florida.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

By Wednesday evening, traffic had returned to the streets near the Siesta Inn.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2022

A few try to forget their afternoon miseries in slumber, but most people take the Kaylulah, or Siesta, shortly after the meridian, holding it unwholesome to sleep late in the day.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir