In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
Ca*nic"u*la, Can*nic"u*la, n. Etym: [L. canicula, lit., a little dog, a dim of canis dog; cf. F. canicule.] (Astron.)
Definition: The Dog Star; Sirius.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 June 2024
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.