In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GRIMY
begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
(adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; “a miner’s begrimed face”; “dingy linen”; “grimy hands”; “grubby little fingers”; “a grungy kitchen”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
grimy (comparative grimier, superlative grimiest)
Stained or covered with grime.
(music) From the urban musical genre called grime.
Source: Wiktionary
Grim"y, a. [Compar. Grimier; superl. Grimiest.]
Definition: Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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AIR
(noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; “an air of mystery”; “the house had a neglected air”; “an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate’s headquarters”; “the place had an aura of romance”
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