In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
COOLIE
coolie, cooly
(noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
coolie (plural coolies)
(offensive, slang) An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.
(offensive, slang, Trinidad, West Indies, Guyana, South Africa and other parts of Africa) An Indian or a person of Indian descent.
Source: Wiktionary
Coo"lie, n.
Definition: Same as Cooly.
Coo"ly, Coo"lie, n.; pl. Coolies. Etym: [Hind. k a laborer, porter: cf. Turk. k, ky, slave.]
Definition: An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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