In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BERDACHE
Etymology
Noun
berdache (plural berdaches or berdache)
(anthropology, dated, now offensive) Among Native Americans, a person who identifies with any of a variety of gender identities which are not exclusively those of their biological sex; a transgender person. [from 19th c.]
Usage notes
Considered offensive by many Native American communities because of its pejorative and non-American etymology, berdache began to fall out of use in the 1990s; two-spirit and various tribe-specific terms (wergern, etc) are now used instead.
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
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5 February 2025
CARE
(noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; “he wrote the manual on car care”
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