In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LABIATAE
Labiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family
(noun) a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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