In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DOLOUR
dolor, dolour
(noun) (poetry) painful grief
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dolour (countable and uncountable, plural dolours)
(literary) A painful grief or suffering.
Source: Wiktionary
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TYPIFY
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
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