In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HYPERCATALEXIS
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Noun
hypercatalexis (uncountable)
(poetry) The addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse
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CHATTEL
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
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