In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BENCHLAND
Etymology
Noun
benchland (plural benchlands)
(geology) bench (thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by slopes)
Source: Wiktionary
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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