In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GARRIGUE
Etymology
Noun
garrigue (countable and uncountable, plural garrigues)
A type of low scrubland found on limestone soils in southern France and other parts of the Mediterranean Basin.
Synonyms
• phrygana
Source: Wiktionary
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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