In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FLECKING
Verb
flecking
present participle of fleck
Noun
flecking (plural fleckings)
A flecked pattern.
Source: Wiktionary
FLECK
Fleck, n.
Definition: A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] J. Martin.
Fleck, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. flekkr; akin to Sw. fläck, D. vlek, G. fleck, and perh. to E. flitch.]
Definition: A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. tennyson.
Fleck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flecking.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. flekka, Sw. fläcka, D. vlekken, vlakken, G. flecken. See Fleck, n.]
Definition: To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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