In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BOOKIE
bookmaker, bookie
(noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bookie (plural bookies)
(informal) A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.
Synonyms
• turf accountant
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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