In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DISPLANTED
Verb
displanted
simple past tense and past participle of displant
Source: Wiktionary
DISPLANT
Dis*plant", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Di; p. pr. & vb. n. Displanting.] Etym: [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF. desplanter, F. déplanter.]
1. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.
2. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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