In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FALLBACK
disengagement, fallback, pullout
(noun) to break off a military action with an enemy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fallback (countable and uncountable, plural fallbacks)
An act of falling back.
A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
(construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating in a relatively closed container.
Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
Synonyms
• (act of falling back): ebbing, recession, retreat
• (backup plan): back-up/backup, plan B, recourse
Hyponyms
• automatic fallback
• modulation fallback
Adjective
fallback (not comparable)
That can be resorted to as a fallback.
Synonyms
• alternate/alternative, back-up/backup, secondary
Verb
fallback
Misspelling of fall back.
Anagrams
• backfall
Source: Wiktionary
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