In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FILOPLUMES
Noun
filoplumes
plural of filoplume
Source: Wiktionary
FILOPLUME
Fil"o*plume, n. Etym: [L. filum a thread pluma a soft feather.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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