In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EXPISCATION
Noun
expiscation (countable and uncountable, plural expiscations)
(archaic, formal) The act of expiscating; fishing.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex`pis*ca"tion, n.
Definition: The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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