In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ENSHEATHE
Etymology
Verb
ensheathe (third-person singular simple present ensheathes, present participle ensheathing, simple past and past participle ensheathed)
(transitive) To cover with or as if with a sheath.
Each filament of combustible pulp is ensheathed in an isolating tube, and these tubes are then bound into cable-like trunks.
Source: Wiktionary
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19 April 2025
CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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