In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LACQUERWARE
lacquerware
(noun) a decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lacquerware (countable and uncountable, plural lacquerwares)
Decorative items coated with lacquer.
Source: Wiktionary
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FUNERAL
(noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; “hundreds of people attended his funeral”
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