In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DELAWARE
Delaware
(noun) the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE, Del.
(noun) a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
Delaware
(noun) one of the British colonies that formed the United States
Delaware, Delaware River
(noun) a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay
Delaware
(noun) a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Del"a*ware, n. (Bot.)
Definition: An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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