In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BREWAGE
brew, brewage
(noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
brewage (countable and uncountable, plural brewages)
Something brewed.
Anagrams
• begware
Source: Wiktionary
Brew"age, n.
Definition: Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENCYCLOPEDIA
(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
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