In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
COSTEANED
Verb
costeaned
simple past tense and past participle of costean
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Source: Wiktionary
COSTEAN
Cos"tean` (ks"tn`), v. i. Etym: [Cornish cothas dropped + stean tin.]
Definition: To search after lodes. See Costeaning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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