In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
AISLING
Etymology
Noun
aisling (plural aislings)
A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predicting the revival of their fortunes.
Anagrams
• Gilanis, ailings, nilgais, sailing
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CITYSCAPE
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
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