In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LINDIA
Lin"di*a, n. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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