In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FANFARONADE
Etymology
Noun
fanfaronade (countable and uncountable, plural fanfaronades)
Empty, self-assertive boasting.
Verb
fanfaronade (third-person singular simple present fanfaronades, present participle fanfaronading, simple past and past participle fanfaronaded)
To engage in empty, self-assertive boasting.
Source: Wiktionary
Fan*far`on*ade", n. Etym: [F. fanfaronnade, fr. Sp. fanfarronada. See Fanfaron.]
Definition: A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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