In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
forestaysail (plural forestaysails)
(nautical) A triangular sail attached to the forestay.
Source: Wiktionary
24 October 2024
(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.