In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
AUNTS
Noun
aunts
plural of aunt
Anagrams
• Satun, astun, suant, tansu, tsuna, tuans, tunas
Source: Wiktionary
AUNT
Aunt, n. Etym: [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister. Cf. Amma.]
1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] Shak.
3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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