In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BEDARKEN
Etymology
Verb
bedarken (third-person singular simple present bedarkens, present participle bedarkening, simple past and past participle bedarkened)
To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.
Anagrams
• Bednarek, barkened
Source: Wiktionary
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19 June 2025
ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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