repose

After the harvest, the farmers finally allowed themselves a week of quiet repose.

The old painting captured the queen in a moment of repose, reclining beneath a shaded willow tree.

“Mara instead studied the ruin at noon, when birds settled on the walls and the courtyard entered a repose undisturbed by traffic.”
— from the passage The Open Corner

“Weeks of soporific lectures on naval duty had nearly lulled the wardroom to sleep, but delayed wages and shrinking rations now disturbed its repose.”
— from the passage The Officers' Correspondence

“Left in repose after the load is removed, a wire may remain crooked until heat supplies enough energy for its ordered austenite structure to return.”
— from the passage The Returning Hinge