In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
fossulae
plural of fossula
Source: Wiktionary
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.