In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration
(noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.