In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HOMALOIDAL
Etymology
Adjective
homaloidal (not comparable)
(geometry) flat; even; applied to surfaces and spaces in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
Source: Wiktionary
Hom"a*loid, Hom`a*loid"al, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Geom.)
Definition: Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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