After a meal, especially dinner.[From Latin post- (after) + prandium (meal). Ultimately from Indo-European root ed- (to eat or to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, and fret.]
Two siblings of this word are preprandial (before a meal) and prandial (relating to a meal).
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus 3: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=postprandial
"A plate of the fashion petits fours accompanied Mrs. Barsky's postprandial iced cappuccino."
Rebecca Mead; Off the Runway; New Yorker (New York); Feb 6, 2005."There (in France) it (cognac) is still seen as a conservative postprandial tipple enjoyed by elderly bourgeois males."
Susan Bell; Beau selecteur; Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh); Feb 6, 2005.
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