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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PUNGENCY
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
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