In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EVOLUTES
Noun
evolutes
plural of evolute
Anagrams
• veloutĂ©s
Source: Wiktionary
EVOLUTE
Ev"o*lute, n. Etym: [L. evolutus unrolled, p. p. of evolvere. See Evolve.] (Geom.)
Definition: A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.
Note: Any curve may be an evolute, the term being applied to it only in its relation to the involute.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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IMPROVISED
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