In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EXPUGN
Etymology
Verb
expugn (third-person singular simple present expugns, present participle expugning, simple past and past participle expugned)
(obsolete) To take by storm; capture. [15th-17th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*pugn", v. t. Etym: [L. expugnare; ex out + pugnare to fight, pugna fight. Cf. Impugn.]
Definition: To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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