In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DECENCIES
Noun
decencies
plural of decency
The requirements for comfortable living.
Source: Wiktionary
DECENCY
De"cen*cy, n.; pl. Decencies. Etym: [L. decentia, fr. decens: cf. F. décence. See Decent.]
1. The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty. Observances of time, place, and of decency in general. Burke. Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense. Roscommon.
2. That which is proper or becoming. The external decencies of worship. Atterbury. Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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