In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CHRONOMETRY
Etymology
Noun
chronometry (usually uncountable, plural chronometries)
The science of the measurement of time
Source: Wiktionary
Chro*nom"e*try, n. Etym: [Cf. F. chronométrie.]
Definition: The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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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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