In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HALTERE
halter, haltere, balancer
(noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
haltere (plural halteres)
(entomology) A small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight.
Anagrams
• Tar Heel, Tarheel, leather, lethera
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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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