In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GEMINATION
duplication, gemination
(noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; “this kind of duplication is wasteful”
gemination
(noun) the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gemination (countable and uncountable, plural geminations)
A doubling.
(phonetics) A phenomenon when a consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is done normally.
Usage notes
• Not to be confused with germination.
Source: Wiktionary
Gem`i*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. geminatio.]
Definition: A doubling; duplication; repetition. [R.] Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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