In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ARCHIVES
archives
(noun) collection of records especially about an institution
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
archives
plural of archive
Verb
archives
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of archive
Source: Wiktionary
ARCHIVE
Ar"chive, n.; pl. Archives. Etym: [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. Archi-, pref.]
1. pl.
Definition: The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue.
2. pl.
Definition: Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.
Syn.
– Registers; records; chronicles.
ARCHIVE
Ar"chive, n.; pl. Archives. Etym: [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. Archi-, pref.]
1. pl.
Definition: The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue.
2. pl.
Definition: Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.
Syn.
– Registers; records; chronicles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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