In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FANCILESS
Etymology
Adjective
fanciless (comparative more fanciless, superlative most fanciless)
Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
Zounds! shall a pert or bluff important wight, / Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white; / A mumbling ape of taste; prescribe us laws […]
Source: Wiktionary
Fan"*ci*less, a.
Definition: Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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