In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HELOTRIES
Noun
helotries
plural of helotry
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• hostelrie, hoteliers, hĂ´teliers, lithosere
Source: Wiktionary
HELOTRY
He"lot*ry, n.
Definition: The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen. "The Helotry of Mammon." Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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