In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
COLL
Proper noun
Coll
A medieval English short form of the male given name Nicholas; very rare today.
A patronymic surname.
An island of the inner Hebrides in Scotland.
Etymology
Verb
coll (third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled)
(ambitransitive) To hug or embrace.
Source: Wiktionary
Coll, v. t. Etym: [OF. coler, fr. L. collum neck.]
Definition: To embrace. [Obs.] "They coll and kiss him." Latimer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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