In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EPIZEUXIS
Etymology
Noun
epizeuxis (countable and uncountable, plural epizeuxes)
(figure of speech) The repetition of words in immediate succession for emphasis.
Source: Wiktionary
Ep`i*zeux"is, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Definition: A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: - Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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