In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CAILLEACH
Etymology
Noun
cailleach (plural cailleaches)
(Scotland) old woman
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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