In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ESTUARIES
Noun
estuaries
plural of estuary
Source: Wiktionary
ESTUARY
Es"tu*a*ry, n.; pl. Estuaries. Etym: [L. aestuarium, from aestuare to surge. See Estuate.] [Written also æstuary.]
1. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle.
2. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.
Es"tu*a*ry, a.
Definition: Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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