In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
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GLASSY
glassy, glazed
(adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; “empty eyes”; “a glassy stare”; “his eyes were glazed over with boredom”
glassy, vitreous, vitrified
(adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; “glazed pottery”; “glassy porcelain”; “hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures”
glassy
(adjective) resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; “the glassy surface of the lake”; “the pavement was...glassy with water”- Willa Cather
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
glassiest
superlative form of glassy: most glassy
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Source: Wiktionary
GLASSY
Glass"y, a.
1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. Bacon.
2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes. "In his glassy eye." Byron. Glassy feldspar (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
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