In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ANCIENTRY
Etymology
Noun
ancientry (plural ancientries)
(archaic) The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.
(archaic) Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony.
(archaic) Elderly people, elders, ancients (collectively).
(archaic) Something ancient (countable); ancient things (collectively).
(archaic) The olden days; antiquity.
In essence inconceivable.
Source: Wiktionary
An"cient*ry, n.
1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West.
2. Old age; also, old people. [R.] Wronging the ancientry. Shak.
3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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