In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DUSKILY
Etymology
Adverb
duskily (comparative more duskily, superlative most duskily)
In a dusky manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Dusk"i*ly, adv.
Definition: In a dusky manner. Byron.
DUSKY
Dusk"y, a.
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.
2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.
3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley.
4. Intellectually clouded. Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. Sir P. Sidney.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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