In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
oboe, hautboy, hautbois
(noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hautbois (plural hautbois)
Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.
Synonym: oboe
Any of the (now obsolete) predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais.
Source: Wiktionary
6 November 2024
(adverb) in a searching manner; “‘Are you really happy with him,’ asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.