In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GABBRO
gabbro
(noun) one of a family of granular intrusive rocks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gabbro (countable and uncountable, plural gabbros)
(rock) Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.
Source: Wiktionary
Gab"bro, n. Etym: [It.] (Geol.)
Definition: A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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