In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
cavetto
(noun) a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cavetti
plural of cavetto
Source: Wiktionary
Ca*vet"to, n. Etym: [It. cavetto, fr. cavo hollow, L. cavus.] (Arch.)
Definition: A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Calumn.
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.