In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BOULE
boulle, boule, buhl
(noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
boule (plural boules)
One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
A round loaf of bread.
A round piece of dough.
(woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
Verb
boule (third-person singular simple present boules, present participle bouling, simple past and past participle bouled)
(transitive, cooking, rare, nonstandard) To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.
Etymology 2
Noun
boule (usually uncountable, plural boules)
(woodworking) Alternative form of buhl
Etymology 3
Noun
boule (plural boules)
(historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece
Anagrams
• Lobue
Source: Wiktionary
Boule, Boule"work`, n.
Definition: Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DETENTION
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); “his detention was politically motivated”; “the prisoner is on hold”; “he is in the custody of police”
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