In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BATONS
Noun
batons
plural of baton
Anagrams
• Abston, Baston, Batson, Bostan, baston, tabons
Source: Wiktionary
BATON
Bat"on, n. Etym: [F. b. See Baston.]
1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. He held the baton of command. Prescott.
2. (Her.)
Definition: An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister;
– called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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