In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
corbeau (plural corbeaux)
The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
(historic) A man who carts away the dead plague victims.
A very dark shade of green, almost black.
Source: Wiktionary
25 September 2023
(adjective) attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); “houses with quaint thatched roofs”; “a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.