In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DEJECTA
Etymology
Noun
dejecta pl (plural only)
(medicine, zoology) any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.
excrements
Source: Wiktionary
De*jec"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL., neut. pl. from L. dejectus, p. p.]
Definition: Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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