In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BESHAME
Etymology
Verb
beshame (third-person singular simple present beshames, present participle beshaming, simple past and past participle beshamed)
(archaic, transitive) To shame; put to shame.
Source: Wiktionary
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ANYMORE
(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”
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