In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
INCIENSO
brittlebush, brittle bush, incienso, Encelia farinosa
(noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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FOCUS
(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; “in focus”; “out of focus”
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