In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
breloque (plural breloques)
A seal or charm for a watchchain.
Source: Wiktionary
Bre*loque", n. [F.]
Definition: A seal or charm for a watch chain. "His chains and breloques." Thackeray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.