In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DEFOREST
deforest, disforest, disafforest
(verb) remove the trees from; “The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
deforest (third-person singular simple present deforests, present participle deforesting, simple past and past participle deforested)
(transitive) To clear (an area) of forest.
Anagrams
• forested, fostered
Source: Wiktionary
De*for"est, v. t.
Definition: To clear of forests; to dis U. S. Agric. Reports.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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