In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
lanes
plural of lane
(bowling, colloquial, usually in definite form) bowling alley
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Source: Wiktionary
Lane, a. Etym: [See Lone.]
Definition: Alone [Scot.] His lane, by himself; himself alone.
Lane, n. Etym: [OE. lane, lone, AS. lone, lone; akin to D. laan, OFries. lana, lona.]
Definition: A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, ras, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. Tyndale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 April 2024
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.