audience

On-Yomi: エツ

Koohii stories:

1) [ruisu] 26-11-2007(231): The talk was so boring the audience took a siesta.

2) [Katsuo] 30-10-2008(59): Note: The keyword meaning is "Have an audience with . . . (Pope, King, etc)". Story: When you arrive for your audience with the Pope, he appears to be dozing. His assistant says, "Sorry about your audience, but you won't get a word out of him while he's having his siesta".

3) [GenPDP7] 20-12-2007(36): The man talking during his siesta (in his sleep) is saying strange things and drawing an audience.

4) [lasercorn] 5-6-2008(24): A good audience doesn't talk or take a siesta.

5) [FuDaWei] 30-5-2010(10): The Pope granted an AUDIENCE to the entire Mexican village, but since he didn't talk in Spanish, it quickly turned into a mass siesta.