In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FULGURANT
dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous
(adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning; “the skater’s dazzling virtuosic leaps”; “these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth”- Janet Flanner; “adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous”- Idwal Jones
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
fulgurant (comparative more fulgurant, superlative most fulgurant)
resembling a lightning flash; fulgurous
Source: Wiktionary
Ful"gu*rant a. Etym: [L. fulgurans, p. pr. of fulgurare.]
Definition: Lightening. [R.] Dr. H. More.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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