In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DECONTEXTUALIZE
Etymology
Verb
decontextualize (third-person singular simple present decontextualizes, present participle decontextualizing, simple past and past participle decontextualized)
(transitive) To divest of context.
Synonym: take out of context
Source: Wiktionary
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SQUARE
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
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