In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CREAMERY
creamery
(noun) a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
creamery (plural creameries)
A place where dairy products are prepared or sold.
An ice cream parlour.
Source: Wiktionary
Cream"er*y (-r-), n.; pl. Creameries (-. Etym: [CF. F. cr.]
1. A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.
2. A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream.
3. An establishment where cream is sold.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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