In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
JAPERY
buffoonery, clowning, japery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank
(noun) acting like a clown or buffoon
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
japery (countable and uncountable, plural japeries)
Jesting, joking
Source: Wiktionary
Jap"er*y, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. japerie a yelping.]
Definition: Jesting; buffoonery. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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