In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CHINOVNIK
Etymology
Noun
chinovnik (plural chinovniks)
A bureaucrat in the Tsarist Russian government.
Source: Wiktionary
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10 January 2025
INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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