In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BOUILLABAISSE
bouillabaisse
(noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bouillabaisse (countable and uncountable, plural bouillabaisses)
A type of fish soup or stew from Provence, France.
(figuratively) A mixture.
Synonyms: Thesaurus:hodgepodge, Thesaurus:mixture
Source: Wiktionary
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