In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GERMANITE
germanite
(noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide
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Etymology
Noun
germanite
(mineral) An isometric-hextetrahedral pinkish gray mineral containing copper, germanium, iron, and sulfur.
Anagrams
• germinate, reteaming
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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