In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DISAGGREGATION
Etymology
Noun
disaggregation (countable and uncountable, plural disaggregations)
A division or breaking up into constituent parts, particularly the analytic disassembly of categories which have been aggregated or lumped together.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*ag`gre*ga"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. désagrégation.]
Definition: The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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