In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
dessertspoon, dessertspoonful
(noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dessertspoon (plural dessertspoons)
An item of cutlery; a spoon, larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon, used for eating dessert.
A unit of measure, being equivalent to two teaspoons or two-thirds of a tablespoon, or approximately 10 millilitres; a dessertspoonful.
More generally, that volume of a substance which is contained within a dessert spoon.
Source: Wiktionary
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.