In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BOXFISHES
BOXFISH
boxfish, trunkfish
(noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
boxfishes
plural of boxfish
Source: Wiktionary
BOXFISH
Box"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The trunkfish.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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