In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GE
Gaea, Gaia, Ge
(noun) (Greek mythology) goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology
germanium, Ge, atomic number
(noun) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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