In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
embogue (third-person singular simple present embogues, present participle emboguing, simple past and past participle embogued)
(archaic) To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.
Source: Wiktionary
Em*bogue", v. i. Etym: [See Disembogue.]
Definition: To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 June 2025
(adjective) having relatively few calories; “diet cola”; “light (or lite) beer”; “lite (or light) mayonnaise”; “a low-cal diet”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.