In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
brown, brownness
(noun) an orange of low brightness and saturation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
brownness (usually uncountable, plural brownnesses)
The state or quality of being brown.
Source: Wiktionary
Brown"ness, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 September 2024
(noun) accommodation to domestic life; “her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.