In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
alidade, alidad
(noun) surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles
alidade, alidad
(noun) surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments
Source: WordNet® 3.1
alidad (plural alidads)
Archaic form of alidade.
• la-di-da
Source: Wiktionary
24 January 2025
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.