In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BECLAMOR
Etymology
Verb
beclamor (third-person singular simple present beclamors, present participle beclamoring, simple past and past participle beclamored)
(transitive) To assail with clamor; to rail against.
Source: Wiktionary
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TRUNCATION
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
Coffee Trivia
