In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
AMONTILLADO
Amontillado
(noun) pale medium-dry sherry from Spain
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
amontillado (countable and uncountable, plural amontillados)
A pale, dry sherry from Montilla.
Source: Wiktionary
A*mon`til*la"do, n. Etym: [Sp.]
Definition: A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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