In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DEMY
Etymology
Noun
demy (countable and uncountable, plural demies)
A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
(colloquial) One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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• emyd
Source: Wiktionary
De*my", n.; pl. Demies. Etym: [See Demi-.]
1. A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
2. A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.
De*my", a.
Definition: Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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